The nurse would anticipate hormone therapy to be considered in patients with cancers of which tissues? Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected. Select all that apply
1. Brain
2. Breast
3. Prostate
4. Endometrium
5. Bone
1,2,3,4
Rationale 1: The brain is a hormone target tissue and is very hormone responsive. Hormone manipulation may be used to treat brain cancer.
Rationale 2: Breast tissue is normally very responsive to hormones, so hormone manipulation may be used to treat breast cancer.
Rationale 3: Tissues of the prostate are normally very responsive to hormones, so hormone manipulation may be useful in treating prostate cancer.
Rationale 4: The endometrial tissues are normally very responsive to hormones, so manipulation of hormone levels may be indicated in the treatment of endometrial cancers.
Rationale 5: Bone tissue is not hormone responsive, so hormone manipulation would have little value in the treatment of bone cancers.
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