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How do you think epigenetics will influence cancer prevention and treatment?

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This solution defines epigenetics and discusses how it may be used to better prevent and treat cancer.

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Epigenetics shows great promise in both the prevention and treatment of various cancers; however, you must first understand what "epigenetics" means in order to understand how this can be possible.

Epigenetics, in simple terms, can be described as the science of how cells can both silence (turn off) and turn on certain genes. Although every cell in the human body has the same DNA makeup and genes; subtle differences (e.g. environmental factors, drugs, etc.) in each cell affects how they switch genes on and off. What scientists want to know is, if every cell has the same dna and genes, why do they manifest in such different ways? According ...

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