The invention provides stable metastin derivatives having excellent
biological activities (a cancer metastasis suppressing activity, a cancer
growth suppressing activity, etc.). By modifying the constituent amino
acids of metastin with specific modifying groups, metastin derivatives
having more improved blood stability, etc. than native metastin and
showing excellent cancer metastasis suppressing activity or cancer growth
suppressing activity have been found. Furthermore, it has been found that
these metastin derivatives exhibit effects of suppressing gonadotropic
hormone secretion, suppressing sex hormone secretion, etc., which are
wholly different from the effects heretofore known.