| very | 28 | degree |
| for both the patient | 22 | transitive-object |
| to detect before a devastating prognosis | 10 | temporal |
| cancer → be → difficult | 71 |
| cancer → be → difficult disease | 12 |
| cancer → be difficult to → deal | 4 |
| cancer → be → hard problem | 3 |
| cancer → be → difficult thing | 3 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.686 | 0.229 | 0.085 |
| Raw frequency | 93 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.592 |
| Modifier score | 0.625 |
| Perplexity | 219.388 |