Fig. 1 –

Kaplan-Meier curves distant metastasis (DM)-free survival. The curves have not been adjusted for age, Gleason score, clinical stage, initial prostate-specific antigen, year of treatment, or utilization of local or systemic salvage therapies (with salvage treated as a time-dependent variable). Following multivariate regression adjusted for these factors, patients treated with external beam radiotherapy + brachytherapy (brachy; EBRT + BT) had significantly higher 5-yr and 10-yr DM-free survival rates than patients treated with either radical prostatectomy (RP) or EBRT (p < 0.01 for both).