The client asks the nurse how taking an aspirin each day may help prevent colorectal cancer. What is the nurse's best response?
A. "Aspirin is an antioxidant that can prevent the formation of carcinogens during metabolism of food."
B. "Aspirin has been found to suppress the activity of known carcinogens that are ingested as food."
C. "The area of the gastrointestinal tract that absorbs aspirin is the same place car-cinogens are absorbed. Aspirin displaces carcinogens from the absorption site."
D. "Aspirin increases the rate that foods move through the intestinal tract, so there is less time for carcinogens to come into contact with body organs."
B
Aspirin suppresses carcinogenic activity in living systems.
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