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This clinical trial studies how well cognitive assessment and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) program work in identifying cognitive effects of androgen receptor directed therapies such as abiraterone acetate and enzalutamide in patients with prostate cancer that has spread from where it started to other places in the body. Cognitive assessment and MRI program may help to assess the cognitive function of patients during treatment and identify genetic variations that might make patients more or less sensitive to cognitive changes during treatment for prostate cancer.

This randomized phase III trial studies androgen-deprivation therapy and radiation therapy in treating patients with prostate cancer. Androgens can cause the growth of prostate cancer cells. Androgen deprivation therapy may stop the adrenal glands from making androgens. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to kill tumor cells.