A patient who was recently diagnosed with ovarian cancer wants to have children. Which type of treatment should the nurse expect to be prescribed first for this patient?
1. chemotherapy
2. radiation therapy
3. surgery to remove one ovary
4. hormone replacement therapy
Correct Answer: 3
In young women with stage I disease who wish to have children, treatment may be limited to removal of one ovary. Chemotherapy is used after surgery in the treatment of ovarian cancer. Radiation therapy using external-beam or intracavitary implants is performed for palliative purposes only and is directed at shrinking the tumor at selected sites. Hormone therapy is not used to treat ovarian cancer.
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