Cancer and heart disease are preventable - and both are amenable to public health action

Cancer and heart disease are indeed diseases of old age, as Steve Ainsworth suggests, but he seems unaware they are both preventable and amenable to public health action. Such action is ultimately about political change outwith healthcare systems.

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