Sentences with phrase «high radioactive iodine»
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The large number of abnormalities appearing so soon after the accident «would indicate that these children almost certainly received a very high dose of thyroid radiation from inhaled and ingested radioactive iodine,» antinuclear crusader Helen Caldicott wrote in a post on her homepage.
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The amount of radioactive tracer will be the determining factor: If you have a high uptake of iodine tracer, it means that you have Graves» disease.
For this reason, iodine - deficient individuals have a particularly high risk of developing radiation - induced thyroid cancer when exposed to radioactive iodine.
Thyroidal uptake of radioactive iodine is higher in people with iodine deficiency than in people with iodine sufficiency.
If a child, or an adolescent, is going to be exposed to radioactive iodine in the coming days, a high dose can close the receptor to stop their thyroid and prevent their gland from absorbing radioactive iodine.3
While medication like anti-thyroid drugs and surgery are important treatments, radioactive - iodine therapy is quickly becoming the most popular form because of its low risk, high success, and lack of side effects.