Oxygen-starved tumors have an Achilles' heel that could be targeted with drugs

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A tumor's goal is simple: to grow, grow, grow, by making more cancer cells. But that often means growing so fast that the oxygen supply gets scarce, at which point cells within the tumor start to suffocate.

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