62-year-old patient is receiving methyltestosterone (Methitest), 200 mg PO daily, for palliation of breast cancer. She asks you why she is taking this particular medication and expresses concern that this medication, like other medications she has taken for treatment of the cancer, will make her feel ill. What should you tell her?

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Herceptin is an antibody that is used to treat certain forms of breast cancer by binding to a class of estrogen receptors. What is the basis for its effectiveness in treating certain forms of breast cancer?

Chapter 30 See the accompanying Nursing Care Plan for Regina Sauder for an example of the nursing process for medication administration. You are scheduled to give an intramuscular injection in the ventrogluteal site and remember learning that it should be administered using the Z-track technique. When you mention this to the nurse in the hospital who has been taking care of your patient, she tells you there is no reason to use the Z-track technique. You remember your instructor telling you to use the Z-track technique. What should you do? You are caring for two patients and have just completed giving medications to the first when you realize that you gave her the medications prescribed for your other patient. What should you do?