A 2-year-old child has been diagnosed with neuroblastoma. The tumor is extremely large. Parents ask how this cancer could be so extensive, yet the child has not displayed many symptoms until this past week
Nurses explain that early diagnosis of childhood cancers is often difficult because the signs and symptoms are:
A) Already present at birth
B) Absent until the late stage
C) Similar to those of other childhood diseases
D) Seen as developmental delays
Ans: C
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Early diagnosis is missed in childhood cancers because the signs and symptoms are similar to those of other childhood diseases. Multiple chromosomal mutations can cause some of the early childhood cancers, with signs and symptoms similar to other childhood diseases. Signs and symptoms are present even in the early stages of cancer. Childhood growth delays (rather than developmental delays) are associated with cancers and other diseases.
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