... Cancer Plan, 2000) The plan sets out clear guidelines as to what this government expects to achieve, and how it will go about achieving their goal. It is through these health promotion methods that the main areas of tackling health inequalities and preventing the increasing incidence of cancer, that this work will focus on, highlighting areas that could be expanded or reconsidered, by referral to pertinent literature. Cancer is a malignant neoplastic disease (Online Medical Dictionary). Cancer is not one disease, but many. There are over 200 types of cancer, but they all have similar features and all start in the same way (Cancer Research UK, 2003). Impaired control signals in mitosis results in abnormal and/or uncontrolled cell division, and is the source of mutated cells. The division of these mutated cells is the start of a tumour, of which there are two types: malignant and benign. Benign tumours are ...

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