Orchiectomy WisdomCard™
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Research Notes on Orchiectomy
An orchiectomy (also called an orchidectomy) is surgery to remove one or both testicles. The most common reasons for the operation are severe injury and cancer.
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Latest Headlines on Orchiectomy
What is Orchiectomy?
- National Cancer Institute: Definition of Orchiectomy | Definition of inguinal orchiectomy
- Wikipedia: Inguinal Orchiectomy
- MedSolution: Orchiectomy
- Prostate Cancer Info Link: Orchiectomy for the Treatment of Advanced Prostate Cancer
What Are The Uses for Orchiectomy?
- City of Hope: Testicular Cancer Treatment
- A.D.A.M. (via University of Maryland Medical Center): Prostate cancer
- Caring 4 Cancer: How Is Prostate Cancer Treated?
What Are The Side Effects, Interactions and Precautions for Orchiectomy?
- National Center for Biotechnology Information: Flushing. Long-term side effect of orchiectomy in treatment of prostatic carcinoma
- Prostate Info: Orchiectomy
- HealthMark Multimedia (via Revolution Health): Effectiveness And Side Effects of Orchiectomy
- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center: Orchiectomy
What are the Alternatives to Orchiectomy?
- London Prostate Cancer Centre: Hormonal treatment of prostate cancer
- About.com: Orchiectomy for Prostate Cancer Treatment
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Testicular Cancer: Survival High with Early Treatment
- Testicular Cancer.com: Testicular Cancer Treatment
- Mayo Clinic: Testicular Cancer Treatment
Wisdom, Blogs and Message Boards about Orchiectomy
- Daily Strength: Prostate Cancer Support Group
- Testicular Cancer Support Forum: Post Inguinal Orchiectomy recovery times
- Daily Strength: Testicular Cancer Support Group
- Lance Armstrong Foundation
Clinical Trials for Orchiectomy
- Center Watch: Clinical Trials on Orchiectomy
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Clinical Trials on Orchiectomy
Scientific and Medical Journal Articles on Orchiectomy
- Google Scholar: Medical Articles on Orchiectomy
- PubMed Central: Medical Journal Articles on Orchiectomy
- JAMA: Medical Journal Articles on Orchictomy
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- Contributor: Jacky Gamble
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Oct. 15, 2009
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Meet our contributors and reviewers
- Contributor: Jacky Gamble
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Orchidectomy, Inguinal Orchiectomy
- Last update: Sep. 16, 2008
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.
