MEDICAL SURGICAL CANCER & ONCOLOGY PRACTICE CHAPTER 8 QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE ANSWERS 100% CORRECT

1. The 40-year-old female who was diagnosed with a benign growth in her colon is concerned about the growth spreading. The nurse can allay her anxiety by explaining that benign neoplasms: - CORRECT ANSWER are surrounded by fibrous tissue that prevents spread. 2. The 26-year-old patient with a malignant neoplasm has experienced a 10-pound weight loss in 3 weeks. The nurse takes into consideration that the rapid weight loss is most likely related to: - CORRECT ANSWER the malignancys high nutritional demand. 3. The nurse recognizes the staging T3, N2, M2 of the patients cancer to mean that there is a: - CORRECT ANSWER large tumor with extensive lymph node involvement. 4. In assessing several patients in the outpatient clinic, the nurse identifies the patient who is at the greatest risk for cancer as the: - CORRECT ANSWER 45-year-old farmer from Texas who has worked on his familys cotton farm since the age of 12. 5. The nurse recognizes a promoter that, although not a carcinogen itself, allows cancer to occur faster in the patient that: - CORRECT ANSWER drinks heavily. 6. The x-ray technician wears a badge that is monitored frequently to measure the amount of radiation he has absorbed. Such occupational exposure to radiation frequently results in a specific cancer, which is: - CORRECT ANSWER leukemia. 7. The nurse outlines a diet that would be helpful in the prevention of cancer. This diet includes: - CORRECT ANSWER citrus fruits. 8. The young college student who wants a tan before spring break asks the nurse what the safest method would be. The nurses best response is: - CORRECT ANSWER use a spray-on tanning solution. 9. The nurse reminds the 40-year-old female patient that the American Cancer Society (ACS) recommendations for early detection of cancer include that she should: - CORRECT ANSWER have a mammogram done every year. 10. In assessing a man who is to have a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test done, the nurse identifies the situation that will delay the test, which is: - CORRECT ANSWER recent urinary tract infection. 11. In planning care for the patient who is on a protocol of bleomycin, an antitumor antibiotic, the nurse will add to the care plan an intervention to: - CORRECT ANSWER measure urinary output. 12. When caring for a patient with cancer who is receiving vincristine, a vesicant, the nurse is especially careful to avoid: - CORRECT ANSWER the drug extravasating. 13. The nurse includes in the instructions to a 50-year-old male patient taking estrogens as treatment of prostate cancer that he may develop: - CORRECT ANSWER gynecomastia. 14. The nurse instructs a patient who is on a biologic response modifier (BMR) colony-stimulating drug that the effect of this type of drug is to: - CORRECT ANSWER enhance recovery of bone marrow. 15. The patient on radiation therapy has developed diarrhea. The nurse suggests foods that would decrease diarrhea, such as: - CORRECT ANSWER cheese and crackers. 16. The nurse instructing fatigue management to the patient who is taking radiation will include information about: - CORRECT ANSWER prioritizing activities.