Manchester is recruiting 20,000 "cancer champions" to change how people think about the disease, and so prevent thousands of needless deaths. The champions, in one of the UK's cancer hotspots, aim to make it normal to talk about screenings, lifestyle factors that contribute to the disease and the symptoms that could let people catch it early. The existing system is failing to reach people on low incomes.
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