Fat drug ‘can help prostate cancer fight’

WELCOME Dr Iain Frame A PILL developed to fight obesity could lead to a cure for deadly prostate cancer, scientists said.

Researchers found the drug, known as fatostatin, boosts genes that fight the fat which makes prostate tumours spread.

Prof Pier Pandolfi, of Harvard Medical School in Boston, said of tests on mice: “It was as though we’d found the fat production switch.”

He said a cure may come if a drug was found to “block this switch”.

His team are the first to find a link between genes and diet in the spread of prostate cancer.

Dr Iain Frame, of Prostate Cancer UK, said the study may help predict which cancers would spread and “also help develop new treatments.”