While talking with a friend who is to start cancer treatment using a monoclonal antibody, the LPN could include which statement regarding this class of medications?
A. "The nice thing about those medications is that they are designed to target only the cancer cells."
B. "Those are powerful medications that destroy rapidly growing cells in your body."
C. "The physician will give you a pre-treatment with something to tag the cancer cells so the antibody can find them."
D. "Monoclonal antibodies stimulate your own immune system rather than fight the cancer cells themselves."
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