The nurse is caring for a client who has undergone removal of a benign colonic polyp. The client asks the nurse why a follow-up colonoscopy is necessary. Which is the nurse's best response?
a. "You are at risk for developing more po-lyps in the future."
b. "You may have other cancerous lesions that could not be seen right now."
c. "The doctor can remove only a few of the polyps during each colonoscopy."
d. "This test will ensure that you have healed where the polyp was removed."
A
Once a person has developed a polyp, risk for occurrence of multiple polyps is present. The phy-sician usually can remove all visible polyps during the colonoscopy procedure. Follow-up colo-noscopy is not done to ensure that healing occurred where a polyp was removed, or to check for cancerous lesions that were not visible during the first procedure.
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