Sentences with phrase «iodine treatment gives»
Besides, radio - iodine treatment gives consistently better results than managing the condition with medications.
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«Earlier menopause has been reported in women undergoing radioactive iodine treatment, and given the finite number of primordial follicles women start with at birth, radiation injury to germinal cells is not expected to be reversible,» she cautioned.
«That's the quandary faced by the entire health care team — for the surgeon, whether to take the lymph nodes out; for the endocrinologist, whether to give radioactive iodine, in part based on the information obtained about lymph nodes during surgery; and for the patient, whether the information and treatment will result in better survival.»
Most hormone treatment is temporary and given only until iodine levels (and other health markers) come into balance.
With this treatment, cats are given a special iodine that destroys the tissue that is making too much hormone.
An oral dose is given in a controlled treatment facility; the radioactive iodine concentrates in the thyroid gland, destroying some of the gland and thereby restoring it back to a normal state.
More than 95 % of cats given a single dose of iodine 131 will return to normal thyroid function within three months of treatment.