Causes of death after radical prostatectomy at a large tertiary center.

Purpose: Most men treated with radical prostatectomy do not die of prostate cancer. We evaluated the cause of death in a large series of patients who underwent radical prostatectomy and compared the rate of death to that of the general American population.

Materials And Methods: The study population consisted of 18,209 men who underwent radical prostatectomy at our institution between 1975 and 2009.