Suppression of carcinoma using high purity conjugated fatty acid

A method for ameliorating the effects of carcinoma in a human, comprising:

• (a) providing a purified fatty acid having somewhere in its carbon chain a chain of four carbons with two conjugated double bonds formed by reacting an ester of a fatty acid having somewhere in its carbon chain a chain of four carbon atoms such that carbon one bears one hydrogen and one hydroxyl group, carbon two bears two hydrogens, and a double bond is positioned between carbon three and four with a tosyl chloride or a mesyl chloride to form a tosylate or mesylate of an ester of a fatty acid having somewhere in its carbon chain a chain of four carbon atoms such that carbon one bears one hydrogen and one hydroxyl group, carbon two bears two hydrogens, and a double bond is positioned between carbon three and four, and reacting said tosylate or mesylate of an ester of a fatty acid having somewhere in its carbon chain a chain of four carbon atoms such that carbon one bears one hydrogen and one hydroxyl group, carbon two bears two hydrogens, and a double bond is positioned between carbon three and four with diazabicyclo-undecene followed by saponification;
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• (b) administering said purified fatty acid having somewhere in it c carbon chain a chain of four carbons with two conjugated double bonds to a human in a therapeutically effective amount to ameliorate the effects of carcinoma in said human.

A method for the treatment of carcinoma in a human, comprising:

• administering to a human a therapeutically effective amount of a fatty acid having somewhere in its carbon chain a chain of four carbons with two conjugated double bonds formed by reacting an ester of a fatty acid having somewhere in its carbon chain a chain of four carbon atoms such that carbon one bears one hydrogen and one hydroxyl group, carbon two bears two hydrogens, and a double bond is positioned between carbon three and four with a tosyl chloride or a mesyl chloride to form a tosylate or mesylate of an ester of a fatty acid having somewhere in its carbon chain a chain of four carbon atoms such that carbon one bears one hydrogen and one hydroxyl group, carbon two bears two hydrogens, and a double bond is positioned between carbon three and four, and reacting said tosylate or mesylate of an ester of a fatty acid having somewhere in its carbon chain a chain of four carbon atoms such that carbon one bears one hydrogen and one hydroxyl group, carbon two bears two hydrogens, and a double bond is positioned between carbon three and four with diazabicyclo-undecene to form a fatty acid having somewhere in its carbon chain a chain of four carbons with two conjugated double bonds having a purity greater than 75% following saponification.