A community health nurse practitioner is teaching a group of female high school students about the importance of regular Papanicolaou (Pap) smears. The nurse recognizes that which of the following items underlies the rationale for this teaching?The active substitution of normal cells in the cervix correlates to cancer risk.Undifferentiated stem cells are an early indicator of cervical cancer.Cancer of the uterine cervix develops incrementally at a cellular level.Dysplasia in the connective tissue of the cervix is a strong precursor to cancer.
