A Client Scheduled to Undergo a Lymph Node Biopsy Asks

question 31

Multiple Choice

A client scheduled to undergo a lymph node biopsy asks, "If lymph nodes are so prone to cancer, why don't they just take them all out?" How should the nurse respond? Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.
Standard Text: Select all that apply.

• A) "Lymph nodes filter out all kinds of debris and are essential to our good health."
• B) "The surgeon will probably take out a majority of the nodes in the region where the biopsy will be done."
• C) "The cells that are in the lymph nodes actually help protect us from cancer."
• D) "The lymph nodes make up one of our best defences against infection."
• E) "They usually do take out all the lymph nodes if the client has lymphoma."

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Definitions:

Range

The gap between the maximum and minimum figures within a dataset.

Median

The middle value in a list of numbers, which separates the higher half from the lower half of the data set.

IQR

Interquartile Range, a measure of statistical dispersion, which is the difference between the 75th and 25th percentiles of the data.

Range

The difference between the highest and lowest values in a dataset, indicating the spread of the data.