Paul Roberts: The 'C' word

Today (4 February) is World Cancer Day and while there seems to be a different day for almost every ailment nowadays, this one in particular should serve as a reminder to the financial advice industry about protection's crucial role in the planning process. The day's purpose is in essence to help prevent, detect and treat the disease and positive cancer survival statistics recently released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) support the view that we might just be getting somewhere. According to the stats, if someone is diagnosed with melanoma of the skin, prostate or breast ca...