The nurse is teaching a community course about cancer prevention. Which contributing factors to malignancy will the nurse include in the teaching? Select all that apply.
A) Lifestyle factors
B) Hormonal influences
C) Environmental variables
D) Acute inflammation
E) Oxidative stress
A) Lifestyle factors
B) Hormonal influences
C) Environmental variables
E) Oxidative stress
Explanation: A) Environmental variables, oxidative stress, hormonal influences, lifestyle factors, and chronic inflammation (not acute inflammation) are factors that occur outside the cell and can alter the gene products (proteins) of the body's cells, and therefore change the activity and function of the cell or tissue, contributing to the initiation of cancer at the genetic level.
B) Environmental variables, oxidative stress, hormonal influences, lifestyle factors, and chronic inflammation (not acute inflammation) are factors that occur outside the cell and can alter the gene products (proteins) of the body's cells, and therefore change the activity and function of the cell or tissue, contributing to the initiation of cancer at the genetic level.
C) Environmental variables, oxidative stress, hormonal influences, lifestyle factors, and chronic inflammation (not acute inflammation) are factors that occur outside the cell and can alter the gene products (proteins) of the body's cells, and therefore change the activity and function of the cell or tissue, contributing to the initiation of cancer at the genetic level.
D) Environmental variables, oxidative stress, hormonal influences, lifestyle factors, and chronic inflammation (not acute inflammation) are factors that occur outside the cell and can alter the gene products (proteins) of the body's cells, and therefore change the activity and function of the cell or tissue, contributing to the initiation of cancer at the genetic level.
E) Environmental variables, oxidative stress, hormonal influences, lifestyle factors, and chronic inflammation (not acute inflammation) are factors that occur outside the cell and can alter the gene products (proteins) of the body's cells, and therefore change the activity and function of the cell or tissue, contributing to the initiation of cancer at the genetic level.
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