A Patient Asks the Nurse What It Means When the Doctor

A patient asks the nurse what it means when the doctor said that he had adenocarcinoma of the bladder. Reviewing the pathophysiologic principles behind this type of cancer, the nurse knows

A) it is a low-grade tumor that is readily cured with bladder surgery.
B) after resection of the cancer, the prognosis is excellent with this type of cancer cell.
C) that these types of cancer cells are very invasive to the tissue; therefore, the entire bladder must be removed.
D) this is a rare but highly metastatic tumor that has a very poor prognosis.