Polysaccharides were extd. from Dendranthema indicum var. Asteraceae bee pollens with H2O (yield 7.9%), pptd. with EtOH and sepd. by ion-exchange chromatog. into a neutral sugar and 2 acidic ones. The monosaccharide compn. was detd. by high performance liq. chromatog. They contained rhamnose, galacturonic acid, glucose, galactose and arabinose. The anticancer activity of the polysaccharides was evaluated by studying their effect on proliferation of HCT116 and HT-29 cancer cells. The inhibitory effect of individual sugars on the proliferation of HCT116 was not significant when their concns. were 5 mg/mL, but the total polysaccharides showed a significant effect on proliferation of HCT116 and HT-29 tumor cells at the same concn.