The purpose of this study is to learn how an educational intervention about orchiectomy as an alternative to medical castration for those who are already on medical castration will impact the number of patients willing to undergo an orchiectomy (surgery to remove the testicles).
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
101
Brief educational session on surgical castration as an alternative to lifelong ADT for prostate cancer.
University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Number of patients that undergo orchiectomy after receiving study education intervention
Time frame: 1 year
Number of patients that agree to participate in an educational session on surgical orchiectomy
Time frame: 1 year
Correlation of orchiectomy acceptance with race, socioeconomic status, level of education, and marital status.
Time frame: 1 year
Change in body image perception using the Hopwood BIS questionnaire in patients undergoing versus not undergoing orchiectomy.
Time frame: 1 year
Change in sexuality measured using the PROMIS v2.0 questionnaire in patients undergoing versus not undergoing orchiectomy.
Time frame: 1 year
Patient satisfaction with decision to under undergo orchiectomy as reported using the Regret Decision Scale.
Results of patient reported satisfaction regarding their decision to undergo orchiectomy will be reported based on responses to validated Decision Regret Scale questionnaire. Higher regret scores will be associated with dissatisfaction with the decision, lower regret scores will be associated with satisfaction regarding treatment decision.
Time frame: 1 year
Comparison of costs of medical versus surgical castration
Time frame: 1 year
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