09/10/2026
Cancer treatment can save lives. But it can also involve surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and lasting changes to speaking, swallowing and everyday life.
If a cancer can be prevented from developing in the first place, that must always be our ambition.
This does not mean that every cancer is preventable—or that anyone is to blame for their diagnosis.
It means making full use of prevention wherever it is genuinely possible.
Preventing a cancer is better than treating it.
Prevention where we can. Earlier diagnosis where we can’t.