The expression of various lipid synthases is elevated in cancer cells, including sterol regulatory element binding proteins (SREBPs), ATP-citrate lyase (ACLY), acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC), fatty acid synthase (FASN), and stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 (SCD1) (Currie et al., 2013; Sun et al., 2016; Geng et al., 2016; Rohrig and Schulze, 2016; Shimano and Sato, 2017). This evidence concerns the gene SCD and cancer.