The nurse includes which information about benign tumors when presenting an in-service on cancer?
a. They can wander far throughout the body.
b. They are smaller than 2 cm.
c. They retain a small nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio.
d. They look different from the tissue they arose from.
C
Benign tumors are made up of normal cells growing in the wrong place or growing when they are not needed. Benign tumors retain the characteristics of normal cells in that they do not migrate in the body, they retain a small nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio, and they look similar to the tissue from which they arose. Size is not related to malignancy or to being benign.
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