Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] for [adj] cancer " in BNC.
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| 1 | Performance-related pay for general practitioners ( GPs ) — an innovation bitterly resisted by the British Medical Association — is already driving up rates of childhood immunisation and of testing for cervical cancer . |
| 2 | For instance , attention has recently been drawn to the inadequate provision of screening for cervical cancer despite the fact that this service could provide the means of identifying early forms of the disease before it reaches its incurable and lethal stage . |
| 3 | Opinion is divided about the value of screening for prostatic cancer and about the management of localised disease . |
| 4 | Though trials of screening for prostatic cancer are to be welcomed , surely a greater priority is to establish , through adequate clinical trials , the optimum management of localised prostatic cancer . |
| 5 | Fritz H Schröder 's editorial on screening for prostatic cancer makes the point that the specificity and positive predictive value are too low for any of the available screening tests to be recommended . |