The nursing instructor is teaching the senior nursing students about liver disease. What would the instructor teach the students is the most common surgical procedure for liver cancer?
A) Cryosurgery
B) Liver transplantation
C) A lobectomy
D) Laser hyperthermia
Ans: C
Feedback: Removal of a lobe of the liver (lobectomy) is the most common surgical procedure for excising a liver tumor. While liver transplantation and cryosurgery are other surgical options for management of liver cancer, these procedures are not performed at the same frequency as a lobectomy. Laser hyperthermia is a nonsurgical treatment for liver cancer.
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