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Androgen-Deprivation Therapy and Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Prostate Cancer

RATIONALE: Androgens can cause the growth of prostate cancer cells. Androgen deprivation therapy may stop the adrenal glands from making androgens. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to kill tumor cells.

PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial studies androgen-deprivation therapy and radiation therapy in treating patients with prostate cancer.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study. Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.

All patients receive neoadjuvant androgen-deprivation therapy beginning 2 months prior to radiotherapy and continuing for 6 or 32 months.

Radiotherapy begins within 8 weeks after beginning LHRH agonist/antagonist injection.

  • Arm I: Patients undergo high-dose radiotherapy of the prostate and seminal once daily, 5 days a week, for approximately 9 weeks. Patients may also undergo permanent prostate implant (PPI) brachytherapy or high-dose rate brachytherapy.
  • Arm II: Patients undergo whole-pelvic radiotherapy once daily, 5 days a week, for approximately 9 weeks. Patients may also undergo brachytherapy as in arm I.

Patients may undergo blood and urine sample collection for correlative studies. Primary tumor tissue samples may also be collected.

Patients may complete questionnaires at baseline and periodically during treatment. Patients who participate in the QOL portion of the study must also agree to periodic blood collection.

After completion of study therapy, patients are followed up every 3 months for 1 year, every 6 months for 3 years, and then yearly thereafter

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