“…Our independent variables were therapy modalities (RP or IMRT+HT), age, diagnosis year, income, hospital area, hospital level (academic or nonacademic), clinical T stage, grade (maximum Gleason grade), pretreatment PSA (ng/mL), and D’Amico risk classification. The endpoints were acute (in the third month), subchronic complications (at 1 and 2 years), and late complications (at 3, 4, and 5 years) after receiving treatments (i.e., symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia [BPH], impotence, urinary incontinence [UI], urethral stricture, and hernia) ( 13 , 28 ). Symptoms of BPH, impotence, UI, urethral stricture, and hernia were recorded in medical records and treatments were accordance with the corresponding medical treatments.…”