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The present invention relates to the effect of naturally occuring compounds on tumour development. As an example of proof, we used low; non-toxic doses of three compound e.g. Calcium D-glucarate, a naturally occuring Ca++ salt of D-glucaric acid; Nicotinamide (NA), a naturally occuring vitamin and butyric acid (BA), a naturally occuring saturated short chain fatty acid. 7, 12 dimethylbenzanthracene (DMBA), which is a very potent skin carcinogen and is an enviornmental pollutant, was used for skin tumor development. Experiment was performed upto 30 weeks. All the above-mentioned compounds were used either alone or concomitantly any two or all the three. In the positive control group 100% tumorigenesis was attained in 28 weeks, use of single compound led to the inhibition of DMBA induced tumorigenesis between 33 to 47% , use of two compounds resulted into 100% inhibition of tumor development at the end of 30 weeks. This led us to conclude that the concomitant use of Cag, NA and BA in combination of two is useful for preventing skin tumor development for a sort or long period of time. But the concomitant use of all the three compounds, as described, exhibited the perfect synergistic effect in preventing the tumor development completely. This strategy should be equally effective in the management of benign and possibly malignant tumor in any organ caused by any mean.