While interviewing a 30-year-old man, the nurse learns that the patient has a family history of familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP). The nurse will plan to assess the patient's knowledge about
a. preventing noninfectious hepatitis.
b. treating inflammatory bowel disease.
c. risk for developing colorectal cancer.
d. using antacids and proton pump inhibitors.
c. risk for developing colorectal cancer.
Familial adenomatous polyposis is a genetic condition that greatly increases the risk for colorectal cancer. Noninfectious hepatitis, use of medications that treat increased gastric pH, and inflammatory bowel disease are not related to FAP.
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