A patient diagnosed with a primary brain tumor asks the nurse if this is a common disease. Which response by the nurse is accurate?
a. "Brain tumors are very rare."
b. "About 40,000 people a year are diag-nosed with a primary brain tumor."
c. "It doesn't really matter. We are just con-cerned with helping you."
d. "Almost all primary brain tumors are ma-lignant."
B
About 200,000 new brain tumors are discovered each year in the United States with approx-imately 40,000 of those being primary tumors and the rest are metastatic tumors from a different site of origin. Many primary brain tumors are benign. Telling the patient his question doesn't re-ally matter is non-therapeutic communication.
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