Breast cancer cells are open to attack (Image: Steve Gschmeissner/SPL)
THE weakness in Achilles’ heel didn’t pose much of a problem until it came into contact with Paris’s arrow – at which point it killed him. Now a range of tumours are meeting a similar fate thanks to drugs that turn otherwise insignificant gaps in their defences into fatal flaws.
A pioneering therapy that exploits such weaknesses is allowing women with late-stage, drug-resistant breast and ovarian tumours to survive for longer. More recent discoveries of similar genetic weaknesses in a range of other cancers are opening up the promise of…
