Though men have twice the risk of dying of prostate cancer that women have of dying of ovarian cancer, this is never, ever done as a preventative measure before there is evidence of cancer. Let's break it down.
Removing ovaries and testes is the same thing in medicine: castration. They have equivalent functions in the body. This is called being homologous. They are both referred to as gonads.
Removing ovaries and testes is the same thing in medicine: castration. They have equivalent functions in the body. This is called being homologous. They are both referred to as gonads.
As with women, when men are deprived of their gonads and the steroid hormones they create, they get sick and weak.
Without the testes, tumors wouldn't grow in the prostate.
This is also called an orchiectomy, and is the "gold standard" for dealing with prostate tumors of androgens can't be suppressed sufficiently and are still feeding the cancer.
Twice as many men die of prostate cancer each year as women die from ovarian cancer.
Yet, surgeons are rarely removing testes even when cancer is present, much less preventatively.
Instead, other avenues are pursued:
...a fact ACOG physicians are pretty snide about:
It's so odd that men think elective hysterectomies don't happen...Nope, only 665,000 a year.
Because how ridiculous would this be...? Except that it's true and he just doesn't know it.
