The nurse is providing discharge instructions to a patient newly diagnosed with leukemia. The patient says, "My physician mentioned that her survival rates for this type of cancer are good, so I guess my chances of beating this are good, too." How should the nurse respond?
A) "That means that your physician also had this type of leukemia and is a survivor."
B) "It means that your chances are better than if you were being treated by a different physician."
C) "Survival rates are a way of showing how well treatments work generally. They are not specific to an individual patient."
D) "Do not put too much faith in statistics. They seem to change all the time."
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