Author Question: A patient will soon begin targeted therapy as a component of her treatment plan for chronic ... (Read 69 times)

joe · **on:** Jul 23, 2018

A patient will soon begin targeted therapy as a component of her treatment plan for chronic leukemia.

The nurse is conducting health education about this new aspect of the patient's drug regimen and the patient has asked about the potential side effects of treatment. How should the nurse best respond?
A) Chemotherapy causes a lot of unpleasant side effects, and the advantage of targeted therapies is that these are all avoided.
B) Targeted therapies are often more effective than traditional chemotherapy, but the downside of this effectiveness is that adverse effects are more common and severe.
C) The adverse effects to targeted therapies are most often a result of the patient's cancer, not the drugs themselves.
D) Both classes of drugs have adverse effects, but targeted therapies tend to have less of an effect on healthy body cells.

Question 2

A patient has been scheduled to begin treatment with rituximab for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The nurse who will administer this drug should understand that it targets

A) the function of the complement system.
B) specific antigens on the surface of malignant B cells.
C) the DNA of mature plasma cells.
D) the molecular structure of the cells making up the semipermeable membrane of cancerous cells.