Multiple Choice
A medical patients CA 19-9 levels have become available and they are significantly elevated. How should the nurse best interpret this diagnostic finding?
A) The patient may have cancer, but other GI disease must be ruled out.
B) The patient most likely has early-stage colorectal cancer.
C) The patient has a genetic predisposition to gastric cancer.
D) The patient has cancer, but the site is unknown.
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