When cancer fights back: New drug could reopen door to treatment

By Sola Ogundipe
Cancer treatment can become a race against time. A drug works, the tumour shrinks, hope returns. Then the cancer changes. The treatment that once held it back starts losing its grip. Cancer cells find another way to survive, and a battle that seemed to be won begins all over again.
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Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine in the United States now say they may have found a way to disrupt one of cancer’s most frustrating survival strategies. The experimental drug, CS18, has shown early potential to weaken the biological defences that help cancer cells survive treatment and, crucially, make some resistant tu...