The leading cause of death from cancer for both sexes is

When prolonged ischemia occurs to an area of an organ, e.g., the heart, the resulting damage is referred to as

It’s usually hotter ____________ this in July.

A short-term illness that develops very quickly, with perhaps a high fever or severe pain, is called

The driver of the Ford Excursion ________________ me in the turn lane.

Winning that Alaskan cruise was truly ______ once -in-a-lifetime experience.

Caseous necrosis refers to an area where

A 50-year-old female presents to the oncology service for a cancer workup. A computerized tomography (CT) scan reports a 2.9 cm tumor in the left breast, the presence of tumor cells in the regional lymph nodes, and no signs of metastatic lesions in other parts of the body. According to the TNM classification, how should the nurse document these findings in the patient’s record?

His fear of ___________ being a long season seemed contagious.

A nursing student asks the supervising nurse why patients diagnosed with neurofibromatosis will show varying degrees of the disease. Which of the following principles should the supervising nurse use to explain this to the student?