Radical prostatectomy improves survival in selected metastatic prostate cancer patients: A North American population‐based study

Objective To test whether radical prostatectomy might result in better survival than external beam radiation therapy in metastatic prostate cancer patients. Methods Newly diagnosed metastatic prostate cancer patients with M1a/b substages, treated with radical prostatectomy or external beam radiation therapy were abstracted from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database (2004–2016). Temporal trend analyses, propensity score...