Hormones plus radiation found to help prostate Study says it boosts survival odds if cancer hasn't spread

Men with prostate cancer that doesn't appear to have spread havebetter survival chances when they get short-term hormone treatmentwith standard radiation, rather than radiation alone, a small studyfound.

Almost five years after treatment, six men in the radiation-onlystudy group died of prostate cancer; none of the men who got combinedtreatment died of prostate cancer. The study involved about 200 men.

Of the more than 200,000 U.S. men diagnosed each year with thedisease, nearly half have the kind cancer involved in the study: Anexam and imaging indicates it hasn't spread but other tests indicateit might have.

Treatment for such men often involves radiation …