A new study has found that certain cancers can’t grow without lipids (fats) contained in various foods such as butter and ice-cream.

The research demonstrated that cancers with IDH1 gene mutations are “stopped in their tracks when starved of lipids”.

The IDH1 gene mutation is “a nasty mutation” that reprograms cells and is commonly found in blood cancer, acute myeloid leukaemia, bone cancer called chondrosarcoma, bile duct cancer and low-grade glioma (a type of brain cancer).

The new research is led by Dr Daniel Thomas, a clinical haematologist and pathologist with the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute.

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