Cancer exposes its Achilles' heel

摘要

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.rnA pioneering therapy that exploits such weaknesses is allowing women with late-stage, drug-resistant breast and ovarian tumours to survive for longer.