A 52-Year-Old Female Patient Is Receiving Care on the Oncology

A 52-year-old female patient is receiving care on the oncology unit for breast cancer that has metastasized to her lungs and liver. When addressing the patients pain in her plan of nursing care, the nurse should consider what characteristic of cancer pain?

A) Cancer pain is often related to the stress of the patient knowing she has cancer and requires relatively low doses of pain medications along with a high dose of anti-anxiety medications.
B) Cancer pain is always chronic and challenging to treat, so distraction is often the best intervention.
C) Cancer pain can be acute or chronic and it typically requires comparatively high doses of pain medications.
D) Cancer pain is often misreported by patients because of confusion related to their disease process.