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A nurse is preparing a client diagnosed with advanced stomach cancer for tumor removal with surgical stomach resection followed by adjuvant chemotherapy. The nurse should understand the ultimate goal of this plan of care is what? Curative. Palliative. Diagnostic. Exploratory.
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