A Patient Who Was Treated for Colorectal Cancer Last Year

question 7

Multiple Choice

A patient who was treated for colorectal cancer last year now has a malignant tumor in the lung. The nurse realizes that this patient is most likely experiencing which phenomenon?

• A) Metastasis
• B) Contact inhibition
• C) Differentiation
• D) Hypertrophy

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