The nurse is caring for a client with advanced gastric cancer who is scheduled for palliative surgery to relieve gastric outlet obstruction.The client asks the nurse why he should bother having the surgery,because he will not be cured.Which is the nurse's best response?
A) "It will allow the doctors to determine more accurately how long you have to live."
B) "It will relieve the obstruction so you will be more comfortable and able to eat again."
C) "It will remove much of the tumor so that chemotherapy will be more effective."
D) "It will help prevent the tumor from spreading to other parts of your body."
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