A patient diagnosed with cancer and scheduled to begin biotherapy asks the nurse how the therapy will treat the cancer. How should the nurse respond to this patient?
1. "It changes the body processes that caused the cancer by enhancing your own immunity."
2. "It uses radiation implanted into the organ with the cancer."
3. "It uses laser therapy to remove the cancer."
4. "It uses stem cells to treat the cancer."
Correct Answer: 1
Biotherapy modifies the biologic processes that result in malignant cells, primarily through enhancing the person's own immune responses. This is with what the nurse should explain to the patient. Brachytherapy is the implantation of radiation into the organ with the cancer. Photodynamic therapy uses medication that is activated by a laser to treat the cancer. Peripheral blood stem cell transplantation is used to stimulate or replace nonfunctioning bone marrow. It does not treat cancer.
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