Exclusive: Cancer Research UK says toll could be avoided if government tackled health inequalities
Health inequalities are causing 33,000 avoidable cases of cancer in the UK every year, a damning analysis suggests.
Ministers have promised for years to tackle differences in health outcomes as part of their declared mission to level up the country. But their long-promised white paper on health inequalities has been ditched and the junk food advertising ban on TV and the web has been delayed until October 2025.
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