Deck 17: Cancer Treatment and Management Facts and Figures

Question 1

The nurse is teaching a client about tamoxifen therapy in the treatment of breast cancer. The nurse tells the client that the total length of endocrine therapy is ________ years.
Record your answer rounding to the nearest whole number.

Answer 1

5

Question 2

The nurse is preparing to administer a dose of methotrexate to a client in the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The nurse expects the client to experience adverse effects from 1 to ________ hours after the medication is administered by mouth.
Record your answer rounding to the nearest whole number.

Answer 2

4

Question 3

The nurse is caring for a pediatric client taking doxorubicin for the treatment of Wilms' tumor. The nurse anticipates the neutropenia nadir will occur on day 7 of administration and recover by ________ days.
Record your answer rounding to the nearest whole number.

Answer 3

14

Question 4

The nurse is teaching a client with human papillomavirus (HPV) about the correlation between certain viruses and cancer. The nurse explains that viruses account for no more than ________% of all cancers.
Record your answer rounding to the nearest whole number.

Question 5

In preparing a client for radiation therapy, the nurse explains that ________% of clients undergo radiation as part of their cancer treatment.
Record your answer rounding to the nearest whole number.

Question 6

A client has a 2-cm breast tumor, which is estimated to contain 2 billion cancer cells. The client has completed chemotherapy, and the healthcare provider indicates that 99% of these cancer cells have been killed. The nurse calculates that ________ cancer cells remain.
Record your answer rounding to the nearest whole number.