Is there a synonym for "chance" with positive connotation? [closed]

In my native language Swedish the word chans is almost like the English word chance but it has a positive connotation. Therefor as a swede it sounds a bit strange when you read something like "the chance of getting cancer." What's the English word for chance but with a positive connotation?

Solution 1:

It looks like you are trying to find out the word for chance with a positive meaning.

The recommended one would be "opportunity"

An opportunity is a situation in which it is possible for you to do something that you want to do.

[Collins Cobuild]

Solution 2:

Luck (as Kate Bunting suggests in comment) is just such a word. There is such a phrase and thing as bad luck, of course, but luck unmodified tends to mean good luck. The following jocose commonplace plays with the resultant tension:

If it wasn’t for bad luck I wouldn’t have any luck at all. (QI link)

And this quatrain from A. E. Housman (Last Poems XXVIII) embodies the assumption that luck unmodified tends to mean good luck:

Little is the luck I've had,
And oh, 'tis comfort small
To think that many another lad
Has had no luck at all.