Health Promotion and Maintenance Q 53

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Nurse Len is teaching a group of women to perform BSE. The nurse should explain that the purpose of performing the examination is to discover:

  

     A. Cancerous lumps

     B. Areas of thickness or fullness

     C. Changes from previous examinations

     D. Fibrocystic masses

    

    

Correct Answer: C. Changes from previous examinations

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Women are instructed to examine themselves to discover changes that have occurred in the breast.

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Option A: Lumps may be detected through BSE, but it does not diagnose whether it is benign or cancerous.

Option B: Only a physician can diagnose areas of thickness or fullness that signal the presence of a malignancy.

Option D: Only a physician can diagnose masses that are fibrocystic as opposed to malignant.

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