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A patient with advanced prostate cancer will begin treatment with leuprolide (Lupron). The provider has ordered flutamide to be given as adjunct therapy. The patient asks the nurse why both drugs are necessary.
 
  The nurse will tell the patient that:
  a. flutamide reduces the side effects, such as hot flushes, caused by leuprolide.
  b. flutamide suppresses initial tumor flare caused by leuprolide.
  c. leuprolide helps to reduce the toxicity of flutamide.
  d. the combination of both drugs increases cancer survival.
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