Sentences with phrase «glands absorb iodine»

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Iodine is absorbed and used by the thyroid gland in the neck, so radioactive forms can concentrate there and promote cancer.

Children's thyroid glands are especially vulnerable, because they are prone to absorbing radioactive iodine, a by - product of the meltdown.

When you ingest or absorb bromine, it displaces iodine, and this iodine deficiency leads to an increased risk for cancer of the breast, thyroid gland, ovary, and prostate — cancers that we see at alarmingly high rates today.

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

Your thyroid gland absorbs nearly all of the iodine in your body.

Radioactive iodine is injected and rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream, ultimately concentrating in the thyroid glands.