A 52-year-old female patient is seeing the nurse on the oncology unit for pain control related to breast cancer that has metastasized to her lungs and liver. The nurse wants to prevent further pain and is aware that:
A) Cancer pain is often related to the stress of the patient knowing he or she has cancer and requires a very low dose of pain medications along with a high dose of anti-anxiety medications.
B) Cancer pain is always chronic and difficult to treat so distraction is often the best intervention.
C) Cancer pain can be acute or chronic; it may even be the result of the cancer treatment and usually requires high doses of pain medications.
D) Cancer patients often misreport pain because of confusion related to their disease process.
C
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