The nurse who is teaching a group of women about breast cancer should tell the women that
a. Risk factors identify almost all women who will develop breast cancer.
b. African-American women have a higher rate of breast cancer.
c. One in 10 women in the United States will develop breast cancer in her lifetime.
d. The exact cause of breast cancer is unknown.
D
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A Risk factors help identify a small percentage of women in whom breast cancer
eventually will develop.
B Caucasian women have a higher incidence of breast cancer; however,
African-American women have a higher rate of dying of breast cancer after they
are diagnosed.
C One in eight women in the United States will develop breast cancer in her
lifetime.
D The exact cause of breast cancer in unknown.
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