Which of the following are interventions that gerontological nurses can implement to prevent and diagnose cancer in older adults? (Select all that apply.)
A) Encouraging healthy lifestyles
B) Educating patients about cancer screening
C) Facilitating patient efforts to obtain appropriate screening tests
D) Providing creative, holistic, and skillful nursing interventions to patients diagnosed with cancer
E) Supporting the physical, emotional, and spiritual health of individuals
A, B, C
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Encouraging healthy lifestyle habits in persons of all ages can help reduce the risk factors for developing cancer. Educating patients about cancer screening and facilitating their efforts to obtain tests can enable cancers to be detected in early stages, thereby increasing survival rates. Creative, holistic, and skillful nursing interventions that offer support—physical, emotional, and spiritual—to individuals diagnosed with cancer and their significant others promote the best quality of life in the presence of the disease but are not related to prevention and diagnosis of cancer in older adults.
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