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Prophylactic surgery may be completed for a patient even when the client has no current signs of cancer if the patient has other high risk factors such as genetic markers. 

Cervical cancer screening shoud begin at age 18. 

Screening and early detection of cancer is considered secondary prevention. 

Patients should be assessed for thrombocytopenia, neutropenia, and infection prior to administration of chemotherapy. 

IDENTIFY THE RHYTHM. THE PATIENT HAS NO PULSE.  

Which of the following assessment findings are suspicious for possible lung cancer? Select all that apply. 

The most common adverse effect of chemotherapy is nausea. 

Manifestations of spinal shock include sudden depression of reflex activities below level of spinal cord injury, loss of sensation below injury level, or loss of motor function below injury level. 

The first thing a nurse should do if there is assessed redness and pain at the IV site for chemotherapy is to apply a warm compress to the infusion site? 

A hemorrhagic stroke might be caused by a blood clot in a cerebral blood vessel.