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This phase III trial compares less intense hormone therapy and radiation therapy to usual hormone therapy and radiation therapy in treating patients with high risk prostate cancer and low gene risk score. This trial also compares more intense hormone therapy and radiation therapy to usual hormone therapy and radiation therapy in patients with high risk prostate cancer and high gene risk score. Apalutamide may help fight prostate cancer by blocking the use of androgen by the tumor cells. Radiation therapy uses high energy rays to kill tumor cells and shrink tumors. Giving a shorter hormone therapy treatment may work the same at controlling prostate cancer compared to the usual 24 month hormone therapy treatment in patients with low gene risk score. Adding apalutamide to the usual treatment may increase the length of time without prostate cancer spreading as compared to the usual treatment in patients with high gene risk score.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine whether men with National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) high risk prostate cancer who are in the lower 2/3 of Decipher genomic risk (=< 0.85) can be treated with 12 months androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) plus radiation therapy (RT) instead of 24 months ADT+RT and experience non-inferior metastasis-free survival. (De-intensification study) II. To determine whether men with NCCN high risk prostate cancer who are in the upper 1/3 of Decipher genomic risk (> 0.85) or have node-positive disease by conventional imaging (magnetic resonance imaging [MRI] or computed tomography [CT] scan) will have a superior metastasis-free survival (MFS) through treatment intensification with apalutamide added to the standard of RT plus 24 month ADT. (Intensification study)