Title: Hepatic cancer preventing and treating medicine for lower animals

What is claimed is:

1. A cancer preventing and treating medicinal composition in the form of a capsule, a tablet, a powder, a granule, a vial or an ampule containing

(1) a therapeutically effective amount of 2,3,4,5,6-penta-o-acetyl-D-gluconyl isothiocyanate for treating hepatic cancer, in lower animals, and

(2) a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or diluent.

2. A method of treating hepatic cancer in lower animals comprising administering to said lower animals a therapeutically effective amount for treating said cancer of 2,3,4,5,6-penta-o-acetyl-D-gluconyl isothiocyanate.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said administering is orally administering.


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Inventors: Enomoto, Makoto (Tokyo, JP)
Doke, Nobumichi (Ibaraki, JP)

Application Number: 06/178422
Filing Date: 1980-08-15
Publication_date: 1982-11-02
Assignee: NITTO CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO LTD

Primary Class(es): 514/514 424/302
Other Classes: A61K31/26; C07C331/32; A61K31/21; C07C331/00; A61K31/26; A61K31/70
US Patent Ref:
Other Refs: Other References: Tasayama et al., IARC Scientific Publication, No. 16, pp. 271-286, (1977).
Wattenber, J. of the National Cancer Institute 60 (1), pp. 11-18, (1978).
Aoki et al., J. of the National Cancer Institute 59 (2), pp. 1747-1749, (1977).
Chemical Abstracts 84:150881m (1976).
Chemical Abstracts 88:51125u (1978).

Primary Examiner: Goldberg, Jerome D.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas