Diagnosed with small cell lung cancer

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A client has just been diagnosed with small cell lung cancer. The client asks the nurse why the doctor is not offering surgery as a treatment for the cancer. What fact about lung cancer treatment should inform the nurse's response? A client has just been diagnosed with small cell lung cancer. The client asks the nurse why the doctor is not offering surgery as a treatment for the cancer. What fact about lung cancer treatment should inform the nurse's response? Clients with small cell lung cancer are not normally stable enough to survive surgery. Small cell lung cancer is self-limiting in many clients and surgery should be delayed. The cells in small cell cancer of the lung are not large enough to visualize in surgery. Small cell cancer of the lung grows rapidly and metastasizes early and extensively.

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