A trial of intensity modulated radiotherapy to treat prostate cancer (PEARLS)

This trial is looking at radiotherapy to nearby lymph nodes in addition to radiotherapy to the prostate. It is open to men having radiotherapy for the first time. You have it alongside hormone therapy.

The lymph nodes that doctors treat with radiotherapy include:

• those in the area between the hip bones (pelvic lymph nodes)

• those that lie in front of the spine in the lower back near a main blood vessel in the body (para-aortic lymph nodes)

Cancer Research UK supports this trial.