The phrase "avoid a cancer" is not correct and may lead to confusion in written English.
It is not commonly used and lacks clarity regarding what is meant by "a cancer," making it difficult to determine the appropriate context for its use.
Example: "To maintain a healthy lifestyle, it is essential to avoid a cancer that could affect your well-being."
Alternatives: "prevent cancer" or "steer clear of cancer.".
As the leader of the task force summarized the evidence, for every 1,000 men screened, at most one will avoid a cancer death over the course of a decade.
Its benefit is much less frequent than we generally acknowledge — on the order of one person per 1,000 may be helped to avoid a cancer death by a decade of screening.
Is it likely that women would not breast feed their infants in order to avoid a cancer that they have a 10% chance of developing 30 years later?
16 It may be important to publicise increased breast cancer survival rates 17 because some studies suggest that fear-led messages communicating negative consequences of delayed presentation may lead to delay in women who wish to avoid a cancer diagnosis.
That implies that millions of Americans might choose not to be screened if they knew the whole story — that overtreatment is typically more common than avoiding a cancer death.
It is our moral imperative to avoid a future cancer crisis by requiring HPV vaccines for boys and girls.
Among a thousand 50-year-old American women screened annually for a decade, 3.2 to 0.3 will avoid a breast cancer death, 490 to 670 will have at least one false alarm and 3 to 14 will be overdiagnosed and treated needlessly.
Those who like mammography and want to do everything possible to avoid a breast cancer death should feel good about doing it every year if they wish.
Among those thousand women, 3.2 to 0.3 will avoid a breast-cancer death.
Content validity was also taken into account, so in one instance an item on the Avoidance subscale which was considered important (I would try to avoid a person with cancer, loading = .50) remained in place of one with a slightly higher loading (I feel threatened by someone with cancer, loading = .54).54
This protocol has a relatively high intervention rate in order to avoid a delay in a cancer diagnosis.
