Giving Compass' Take:

• James Gallagher reports that scientists have found a way to target cancer cells, opening up the potential for new treatments that target cancer cells while sparing the body. 

• How can funders best support cancer research into cures and treatments? 

• Learn about funding cancer research. 

Scientists have taken cancer apart piece-by-piece to reveal its weaknesses, and come up with new ideas for treatment.

A team at the Wellcome Sanger Institute disabled every genetic instruction, one at a time, inside 30 types of cancer.

It has thrown up 600 new cancer vulnerabilities and each could be the target of a drug.

Cancer Research UK praised the sheer scale of the study.

The study heralds the future of personalized cancer medicine. At the moment drugs like chemotherapy cause damage throughout the body.

The researchers embarked on a gargantuan feat of disabling each genetic instruction - called a gene - inside cancers, to see which were crucial for survival.

They disrupted nearly 20,000 genes in more than 300 lab-grown tumors made from 30 different types of cancer.

Read the full article about potential avenues for cancer treatment progress by James Gallagher at BBC.