A Patient with Lung Cancer Who Is Scheduled to Begin

A patient with lung cancer who is scheduled to begin a course of radiation therapy asks the nurse, "How will they know if I'm cured?" The nurse's best response is based on which of the following understandings?

A) Eighty percent of lung cancers are curable with radiation therapy.
B) Radiation in lung cancer is most often used to increase comfort, not cure disease.
C) Radiation therapy reduces inflammation; chemotherapy is used to shrink the tumor.
D) Lung cancer is never a curable disease; prolonged life is the goal.