Cancelling a Approval Task using Designer 2010

I created an Approval Workflow using Designer 2010. The workflow sends out notifications emails to approvers. But what if I want to cancel the approval task after the email has been sent out. I mean I don't want user to be able to approve the List Item.
Is there something I can change in the Designer 2010 code to make that happen. Thanks so much!
Regards,
mayank

Hi Kapil,
Thanks so much for your response. I have a document library and it has a column called CE Status.
When a task is assigned, the CE Status becomes "Media Relations in Progress" for instance. That is one of the stages. There is a group called Media Relations that will receive an email to approve. Once approved, the logic in my code changes the
CE Status. It goes to next stage and sends out an notification email to the next group.
I want to create a separate workflow that will cancel any pending task. So some selected user should be able to cancel the task. In that event, the assignee (Media Relations for instance) should not be able to approve the document via the email they originally
received.
Mayank

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