DOI: 10.36347/sasjs

Pages: 7-10

Bilateral orchidectomy has been one of the methods of androgen deprivation therapy. Others are Luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) agonist and antagonist and oestrogen compounds. It is cost-effective, simple, permanent and with fewer side effects as compared to other methods. We retrospectively studied case notes of patients diagnosed of prostate cancer in a 10-year period between January 2006 and December 2015 and came up with the result that out of 404 patients diagnosed, 173 representing 42.8% underwent bilateral orchidectomy. We also noted that, there have been an increase in the number of cases diagnosed in the last 4 years and a corresponding increase in the number of this surgery in the same period of time. This may as well be a result of health awareness campaigns and increased use of prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing in men in recent years.