The nurse is teaching a postmenopausal patient with breast cancer about the expected outcomes of her cancer treatment.The nurse evaluates that the teaching has been effective when the patient makes which of the following statements?
A) "If I have no recurrence in the tumour for 5 years after treatment,I will be cured of my cancer."
B) "Because my tumour is slow-growing,it will be many years before I can be considered cured of cancer."
C) "Cancer can be cured only with surgery,and other treatments are used to control the symptoms cancer causes."
D) "Cancer is never considered cured,and the goal of treatment is control of tumour growth over a long period of time."
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