radioiodine

A radioiodine scan to see if the cancer has come back or spread to other parts of your body.

Hyperthyroid patients will typically "take up" higher than normal levels of radioiodine.

Iodine-131 (I), also called radioiodine is an important radioisotope of iodine.

Absorption of radioiodine can lead to acute, chronic, and delayed effects.

A normal radioiodine scan shows even uptake and activity throughout the gland.

The article described a successful treatment of a patient with thyroid cancer metastases using radioiodine (I-131).

Low dose radioiodine of a few millicuries is administered.

After surgical thyroid removal, the patient waits around 4-6 weeks to then have radioiodine therapy.

Treatment is usually surgical, followed by radioiodine.

Radioactive Iodine (radioiodine) is one of the products that can be released in a serious nuclear power plant accident.

Only the decay of Xe leads to a radioiodine, and this is I, however.

There is, however, a contrasting study noting increased cancer incidence after radioiodine treatment for hyperthyroidism.

The principal advantage of radioiodine treatment for hyperthyroidism is that it tends to have a much higher success rate than medications.

Patients not responding sufficiently to the first dose are sometimes given an additional radioiodine treatment, at a larger dose.

The radioiodine can also be used to visualise viral replication within the body by the use of a gamma camera.

Excess radioiodine that does not get absorbed into the thyroid gland is eliminated by the body in urine.

Unlike other differentiated thyroid carcinoma, there is no role for radioiodine treatment in medullary-type disease.

In the remainder, the eye disease first becomes apparent after treatment of the hyperthyroidism, more often in patients treated with radioiodine.

Some patients may experience a slight allergic reaction to the diagnostic radioiodine, and may be given an antihistamine.

When combined with radioiodine therapy it allows local radiotherapy of the tumour, as used to treat thyroid cancer.

Instead the more purely gamma-emitting radioiodine iodine-123 is used in diagnostic testing (nuclear medicine scan of the thyroid).

Radioiodine collects in the thyroid gland before being excreted in the urine.

Some radioisotopes (for example gallium-67, gallium-68, and radioiodine) are used directly as soluble ionic salts, without further modification.

The non-radioactive iodide 'saturates' the thyroid, causing less of the radioiodine to be stored in the body.

It was considered for use at Three Mile Island, but was unnecessary because radioiodine release was so small.