Final Exam: NRSG 3140

Final Exam: NRSG 3140 /

NRSG3140 (Latest Update 2025 / 2026) Therapeutic Health Assessment | Study Guide Questions and Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A – GCSU

Question:

what is prostate cancer?

Answer:

• Second most common cancer, one of leading causes of cancer death in men

in the US

• Slow growing and can be readily treated if found early
• No sure way to prevent; diet and lifestyle behaviors thought to help prevent
• Difficult in older adults, symptoms very similar to benign prostatic

hyperplasia

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Question:

what are the screenings for prostate cancer?

Answer:

• Screening for men aged 55 to 69 years individualized
• For men over 70 years, not recommended
• No one standard or routine screening test

Question:

what is included in the risk assessment for prostate cancer?

Answer:

• Rare in men under 40, raises rapidly after age 50
• Highest for African-American or Caribbean males of African origin; occurs

less often in Asian, Hispanic/Latino men than in whites

• Most common in North America, northwestern Europe, Australia, and

Caribbean Islands; less common in Asia, Africa, Central America, South American

- Family History: having father or brother with prostate cancer

• Certain gene changes
• Exposure to agent orange
• Excessive alcohol consumption
• Working on a farm, in tire plant, with pain, with cadmium, or firefighters

exposed to toxic chemicals

• Slightly higher risk for those who eat diet high in red meat or high fat daily,

fewer vegetables. High calcium intake may be factor 2 / 4

• Shorter sleep duration and sleeping with even small light increases death for

prostate cancer clients

Question:

what are the potential risks for prostate cancer?

Answer:

studies with unclear or ambivalent findings or only slight risk suggested

• Obesity
• Prostatitis
• STIs
• Vasectomy
• Smoking

Question:

how can we teach our clients to lower their risks of developing prostate cancer?

Answer:

• Frequent ejaculation, especially early in adulthood
• Eating diet high in fruits and vegetables; staying physically active,

maintaining healthy weight

• Taking vitamin E and selenium
• Possible preventive effect from medications for BPH, aspirin 3 / 4

• Sleeping in a completely dark room
• Avoiding shift work that requires daytime sleep
• Drinking green tea daily

Question:

what are some symptoms we need to teach our clients to report if they develop what may be a sign of prostate cancer?

Answer:

• Trouble urinating
• Decreased force in stream of urine
• Blood in semen
• Discomfort in the pelvic area
• Bone pain
• Erectile dysfunction

Question:

what are the risk factors of testicular cancer?

Answer:

- Age: approximately 80% under age of 44, more than half between 20 and 34

years

- Race and Ethnicity: white five times higher risk than black men, three times

higher risk than Asian-American or American Indian men, Hispanic/Latino

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