Tumorex, Immune Ace, Ellagic Insurance Formula, PC Hope, Pacific Ocean Shark Cartilage, Breast Cancer Tea Formula. They are all products sold to desperate cancer patients or people worried they might become one.
Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration told the companies selling them to stop asserting that their products will work like drugs or face seizures -- and possibly criminal charges as well.
"The claims are unproved and unreliable, and they are unkind to the patient who is seeking health," said David Elder, director of FDA's Office of Enforcement. "Some of the products may also present a direct safety hazard."
The agency action came in warning letters to 23 companies and two individuals selling 127 herbal, fungal and animal-based health products. Many of the enterprises are home-based and trade only over the Internet. The substances are a varied lot: shark cartilage, turmeric extract, flaxseed oil, dried mushrooms, herbal teas and irritating skin salves made from bloodroot.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061701274.html
Treatments to avoid:
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/factsheets/fakecancercures.html
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