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Preventative or "Prophylactic" Removal of Testes to Prevent Prostate Cancer

8/22/2015

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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.

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As with women, when men are deprived of their gonads and the steroid hormones they create, they get sick and weak.
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Without the testes, tumors wouldn't grow in the prostate.

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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.
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Twice as many men die of prostate cancer each year as women die from ovarian cancer.
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Yet, surgeons are rarely removing testes even when cancer is present, much less preventatively.

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Instead, other avenues are pursued:

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...a fact ACOG physicians are pretty snide about:

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It's so odd that men think elective hysterectomies don't happen...Nope, only 665,000 a year.
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Because how ridiculous would this be...? Except that it's true and he just doesn't know it.
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