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NRTC Med/Surg Ch. 18
Cancer
Question | Answer |
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Tumor that stays at their site of development | Benign |
What is other procedures and treatments is chemotherapy often combined with? | radiation and surgery |
cancer that has invaded or metastasized to other organs of the body. | Stage IV |
What are clients considered when receiving internal radiation therapy? | radioactive |
new growths of abnormal tissue | neoplasms |
This alters interaction between the immune defenses and cancer cells | Biological response modifiers (BRM) |
most definitive method for diagnosing cancer | biopsy |
Antineoplastic drugs are most effective during | cell division |
damaging antineoplastics, in that they cause necrosis of underlying tendons, nerves, and blood vessles. | Vesicants |
What do you do when a vesicant infiltrates? | Leave the IV in to irrigate! |
Patients on chemotherapy are immunocompromised. What type of precautions will they need to be on? | Neutropenic (sp?) |
What are they ABC's of skin cancer? | Asymmetrical, Border changes, Color changes |
how do you remember the 7 warning signs of cancer? | CAUTION! |