21. We now have better evidence that radical prostatectomy diminishes your risk of prostate cancer recurrence. 22. Importantly, the risk of erectile dysfunction after brachytherapy is less than after radical prostatectomy . 23. There are two main types of prostatectomies . 24. The more number of prostatectomies the surgeon has done improves the outcomes of the patient. 25. Two days later, on April 10, he died from complications following a prostatectomy . 26. Radical prostatectomy has traditionally been used alone when the cancer is localized to the prostate. 27. In 2006 he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, which he survived after a prostatectomy . 28. Company spokesman Lowell Weiner declined to say why the operation, a prostatectomy , was performed. 29. Treatments include the radical prostatectomy -- the removal of the prostate-- and radiation. 30. Crapo was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1999 and underwent a radical prostatectomy in January 2000.