A team of researchers has found the 'Achilles heel' of breast cancer paving the way for a treatment that would cure it for good. Scientists from the University of Zurich discovered why current treatments do not kill off the disease but render it dormant meaning it can become active again at any time. They also found a way to 'switch off' the signals that tell cancer cells to grow and divide. Many invasive forms of breast cancer have too much of the receptor HER2 (human epidermal growth factor receptor 2) on their surface which leads to uncontrolled growth of the