ANTICANCER AGENT

PURPOSE:To provide an anticancer agent originated from a living body (a higher animal), containing a specific alpha,beta-diol as an active ingredient, exhibiting an excellent anticancer activity and no dangerous adverse reaction against living bodies. CONSTITUTION:An alpha,beta-diol of the formula (R is H, 1-5C alkyl, especially H or CH3; n is an integer of 3-21, especially 12-16) is employed as an active ingredient to provide a safe anticancer agent exhibiting a remarkable carcinostatic activity and having no adverse reaction because the active ingredient is a living body substance prepared by the decomposition of a natural substance such as a wax, e.g. wool wax, whale wax or beeswax. The anticancer agent is effective against solid cancers as well as ascitic cancer and leukemia, has a wide range adaptability and has no species specificity. The agent is preferably administered in a dose of 10-1500mg/kg of an adult a day for parenteral administration agents such as intravenous injections, subcutaneous injections and drips and in a dose of 0.2-50g/kg of an adult a day for oral administration agents such as capsules.