A gerontologic nurse is advocating for diagnostic testing of an 81-year-old patient who is experiencing personality changes. The nurse is aware of what factor that is known to affect the diagnosis and treatment of brain tumors in older adults?
A) The effects of brain tumors are often attributed to the cognitive effects of aging.
B) Brain tumors in older adults do not normally produce focal effects.
C) Older adults typically have numerous benign brain tumors by the eighth decade of life.
D) Brain tumors cannot normally be treated in patient over age 75.
Ans: A
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In older adult patients, early signs and symptoms of intracranial tumors can be easily overlooked or incorrectly attributed to cognitive and neurologic changes associated with normal aging. Brain tumors are not normally benign and they produce focal effects in all patients. Treatment options are not dependent primarily on age.
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