Survival after radical prostatectomy vs. radiation therapy in ductal carcinoma of the prostate

To compare cancer-specific mortality (CSM) rates between radical prostatectomy (RP) vs. external beam radiotherapy (RT) in patients with ductal carcinoma (DC) of the prostate.Within the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database (2004-2016), we identified 369 DC patients, of whom 303 (82%) vs. 66 (18%) were treated with RP vs. RT, respectively. Kaplan-Meier plots and uni- and stepwise multivariate Cox regression models addressed...