Practice Question
A nurse is providing teaching to a client who has a superficial lesion and has had a biopsy indicates malignant melanoma. The nurse should include which of the following options as the treatment of choice?
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Correct Answer:
Surgical excision
Rationale:
🌟For malignant melanoma, especially when it is superficial and localized, the treatment of choice is wide surgical excision. This involves removing the lesion along with a margin of normal tissue to ensure complete removal of malignant cells.
🌟Early surgical removal offers the best chance for cure before the melanoma spreads to regional lymph nodes or distant organs.
🌟Other therapies like radiation or chemotherapy are typically reserved for advanced or metastatic melanoma, not superficial lesions.
🌟Cryosurgery is mainly used for non-melanoma skin cancers such as actinic keratosis or superficial basal cell carcinoma, not melanoma.
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- Category: RN Nursing Exam(s)
- Subcategory: ATI Exam(s)
- Domain: RN ATI Adult Health
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