Cancer cells in the prostate can be stopped from growing with a drug that is used to control metabolism as they can be starved, according to researchers at Cambridge University.

The fatal disease can one day be made a more manageable one with this finding. In Britain alone every year this disease kills about 10, 000 men and they can now hope that this disease can be managed.

A gene that produces the enzyme CAMKK2 drives the growth of tumor cells in the prostate, according to Dr Ian Mills and his team.

This helps cancer cells grow and also involved in metabolism.

The growth of tumors can also be reversed and reduced if the production of this compound is inhibited.

The above stated is done by a prototype obesity drug called STO 609 and about 36, 000 men in Britain who get effected by this disease every year can be hopeful of getting treated if this drug can be modified, Dr Mills thinks.

He added, “Prostate cancer is a slow growing cancer and if you can slow it down even further you can turn it from a fatal condition to a chronic one that can be managed.”