A Patient Who Has BPH Is Taking Tamsulosin and Dutasteride

A patient who has BPH is taking tamsulosin and dutasteride and asks the primary care NP why he needs to take both medications.The NP should tell him:

A) the combination helps reduce the risk of prostate carcinoma.
B) two-drug therapy is required before corrective prostatectomy surgery.
C) both drugs are given so that smaller doses of each drug may be administered.
D) one gives faster symptom relief, whereas the other shrinks the size of the prostate.