This article, one of the most highly viewed and downloaded articles among Royal Society publications in the past month, challenges our approaches to cancer which have failed to achieved expected improvements in dieases outcomes. The authors suggest that a better understanding of underlying tumor robustness might lead to more successful research directions.
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