Purpose: Cardiotoxicity of anticancer drugs such as 5-fluorouracil (5FU) and anthracyclines is a major complication that challenges their clinical usefulness. There is a critical need for finding new protecting drugs to defense against these harmful side effects. Up till now, there are no studies evaluate the possible cardioprotective effects of fenofibrate (FEN) in 5FU-induced cardiotoxicity. So that, we aimed in current model to evaluate such effect of FEN and explore different mechanisms mediating it.Methods: we used FEN (25, 50,100 mg/kg/day) orally for 7days with induction of cardiotoxicity by intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection of 5FU (150 mg/kg) on 5th day. Results: current study showed that 5FU succeeded in induction of cardiotoxicity and manifested by significant elevation of cardiac enzymes, tissue malondialdehyde (MDA), interleukin 6 (IL6), signal transducer and activator of transcription 4(STAT4) and caspase 3 levels. Furthermore, 5FU group showed toxic histopathological changes of marked cardiac damage and significant decrease in reduced glutathione (GSH), total antioxidant capacity (TAC) and peroxisome proliferator activated receptor alpha (PPARα) expression. FEN could reverse 5FU-induced cardiotoxicity by different mechanisms including upregulation of PPARα, inhibition of IL6/STAT signaling pathway, anti-inflammatory, anti-apoptotic and anti-oxidant properties.Conclusion: FEN had a significant cardioprotective effect against 5FU induced cardiac damage.