Table 2.

Summary of the Results from the Medical Research Council Prostate Cancer Working Party Investigators Group Trial

	Immediate Treatment	Deferred Treatment
	Group	Group
Complication	(n = 469)	(n = 465)
Pain from metastasis	121	211
Need for transurethral
resection of the prostate	65	141
Pathologic fracture	11	21
Cord compression	9	23
Ureteric obstruction	33	55
Extraskeletal metastasis	37	55
Death from prostate cancer	203	257

Source: Data from The Medical Research Council Prostate Cancer Working Party Investigators Group. Immediate versus deferred treatment for advanced prostatic cancer: initial results of the Medical Research Council Trial.²⁹