Table 1.
Death rates and cumulative incidence functions stratified by treatment groupa
| Control (n = 144,816) |
EBRT (n = 44,318) |
BT (n = 14,259) |
BT + EBRT (n = 11,835) |
RP (n = 26,790) |
RP + EBRT (n = 1557) |
Cryotherapy (n = 2115) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of deaths (%) | 44,955 (31.0) | 10, 522 (23.7) | 1830 (12.8) | 1658 (14.0) | 3365 (12.6) | 162 (10.4) | 192 (9.1) |
| KM 10-yr. CIF(%) | 50.5 | 44.0 | 30.1 | 30.5 | 19.3 | 23.8 | 32.1 |
| 95% Confidence Interval for KM 10-yr. CIF | 50.1, 50.9 | 43.1, 44.8 | 28.4, 31.8 | 28.8, 32.2 | 18.6, 20.1 | 19.8, 28.0 | 25.4, 39.0 |
Abbreviations: KM Kaplan-Meier, CR competing risks, HR hazard ratio, CI confidence interval
a EBRT external beam radiotherapy, BT brachytherapy, RP radical prostatectomy