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Cancer vaccines are a type of immunotherapy and can take two forms. Cancer prevention vaccines may be given to healthy people to help destroy certain viruses that could lead to cancer. Cancer treatment vaccines teach the immune system how to attack an existing cancer and keep it from coming back.

Epigenetics is the science of what turns genes on and off. We know that mutations or damaged genes in our DNA can lead to cancer. Researchers are working on epigenetic drugs that conflict the on/off switches on our genes to change the instructions that cancer cells are following.