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NR 451 Week 7 Discussion CDC Wonder.docx/; COMPLETE SOLUTION

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Week 7 Discussion: CDC Wonder The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in the division of Informatics and Surveillance, provides nurses with substantial resources that could innovative... ly incorporate in care delivery. The CDC Wonder website contains cancer statistics that can help nurses in several ways. Cancer statistics can help nurses improve healthcare services by understanding the incidence and prevalence of cancer in the community. Cancer prevalence is the total amount of people who have been diagnosed with cancer within a specific population of people. Cancer incidence, on the other hand, represents the number of people who are diagnosed with a particular type of cancer. Nurses can use the knowledge of cancer incidence and cancer prevalence in determining the probability of a patient who has cancer for further scanning. Cancer is caused by the exposure of individuals to specific cancer-causing substances. Cancer statistics, therefore, enhances early discovery and diagnosis of cancer and thus increase an individual's chances of survival. [Show More]

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