Surgery improves survival rates for men with prostate cancer if radiation treatments fail

Approximately 14 percent of men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point in their lifetimes. Radiation therapy traditionally has been a primary treatment for the cancer, but one-fourth of men have a recurrence of prostate cancer within five years after the therapy. Now, a researcher has found that a complex procedure to remove the prostate achieves excellent long-term survival for men after radiation therapy has failed.