DNA test may help prostate cancer patients avoid radiation side effects

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Histologically confirmed, clinical localized adenocarcinoma of the prostate * No evidence of disease beyond the prostate and/or seminal vesicles (i.e., no suspicious pelvic lymph nodes or presence of metastatic disease outside the pelvis) * Staging workup as recommended by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) on the basis of risk grouping: * Low risk: No staging workup required * Favorable intermediate-risk: computed tomography (CT) abdomen/pelvis only if Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) nomogram predicts \> 10% probability of lymph node involvement (note: CT simulation scan will count as a CT abdomen/pelvis) * Unfavorable intermediate-risk: technetium bone scan, CT abdomen/pelvis if MSKCC nomogram predicts \> 10% probability of lymph node involvement (note: CT simulation scan will count as a CT abdomen/pelvis) * High-risk: technetium bone scan, CT abdomen/pelvis if MSKCC nomogram predicts \> 10% probability of lymph node involvement (note: CT simulation scan will count as a CT abdomen/pelvis) = * Advanced imaging studies (i.e. prostate specific membrane antigen \[PSMA\] positron emission tomography \[PET\] and Axumin scan) can supplant a bone scan if performed first * Ability to understand, and willingness to sign, the written informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with neuroendocrine or small cell carcinoma of the prostate * Patients with any evidence of distant metastases. Note, evidence of lymphadenopathy below the level of the renal arteries can be deemed loco regional per the discretion of the investigator * Prior whole-gland cryosurgery, high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) or brachytherapy of the prostate * Prior pelvic radiotherapy * History of Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, or ataxia telangiectasia