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Register:	ANZCTR
Last refreshed on:	11 June 2018
Main ID:	ACTRN12618000664246
Date of registration:	24/04/2018
Prospective Registration:	No
Primary sponsor:	Basrah university
Public title:	Studying the need of medical treatment together with removal of the testes surgically to treat men with late cancer of prostate.
Scientific title:	Is Combined Androgen Blockade by Surgical Castration and Flutamide Necessary as an Initial Therapy for Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer? A randomized clinical trial.
Date of first enrolment:	20/05/2012
Target sample size:	60
Recruitment status:	Completed
URL:	http://www.anzctr.org.au/ACTRN12618000664246.aspx
Study type:	Interventional
Study design:	Randomised controlled trial Parallel
Phase:	Not Applicable

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Prostate cancer

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Patients with advanced prostate cancer were randomized into two groups after being subjected to surgical castration by bilateral simple orchidectomy . The duration of surgery was about 30 minutes. Group I was followed up for disease progression after orchidectomy alone.Group II patients also had underwent bilateral simple orchidectomy but additionally they were given oral flutamide 250 mg tablets three times daily after meals for up to two years and were followed up. Bilateral simple Orchidectomy for both groups was done by scrotal approach under spinal anesthesia . The patients were asked to return the drug tablet to ensure adherence to the intervention.The follow up period was up to two years following orchidectomy for both groups.

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