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ADVERTISEMENT Cancer death rates are nearly 60 per cent higher for people in the United Kingdom’s most deprived areas compared the most well-off ones, a new analysis has found. Every year, about 28,400 cancer deaths – around three in 20 nationwide – are tied to socioeconomic inequality, according to the report from the nonprofit Cancer Research UK. Meanwhile, about one in 10 cancer diagnoses is linked to neighbourhood deprivation, which the researchers determined by looking at income,