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Vaccines that prevent cancer
Vaccines and early screening stop most cancers before they grow into disease.
Open in the interactive tree →HPV and hepatitis B vaccines already prevent cancers. If tumor evolution is understood and neoantigens can be targeted in advance, vaccines could teach the immune system to destroy precancerous cells for good.
What it brings
- Prevention for people at high risk
- A strong drop in cancer deaths
- Treatment at the earliest stage
Prerequisites
- HPV vaccine2006HPV vaccination is the working example of a vaccine that prevents cancer
- mRNA technology2020
- Curing canceropen