# OnCo record orchiectomy (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/orchiectomy/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "orchiectomy" ;
  schema:name "Orchiectomy"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "orchidectomy"@en, "radical inguinal orchiectomy"@en, "surgical castration"@en, "bilateral orchiectomy"@en ;
  schema:description "Surgical removal of a testicle: the diagnostic and first curative step for testicular cancer, or of both, as a cheap permanent form of hormone therapy in prostate cancer."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/orchiectomy/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-09"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchiectomy> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchiectomy> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/adt/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/castration-resistance/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/surgery/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/hormonal/> .