Radioactive iodine (RAI, also called iodine-131 or I-131) is used to treat some types of thyroid cancer. Learn more about radioiodine therapy for thyroid cancer.
Keywords: thyroid cancer; radioactive iodine; intermediate risk 1. Introduction The use of... RAI side effects, and a detailed assessment of patients’ comorbidities and preferences can...
Radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy can treat hyperthyroidism and certain types of thyroid cancer. Radioactive iodine targets and kills thyroid cells, specifically.
Radioactive iodine therapy has been used to treat thyroid cancer for about 80 years. But how does it work? And which patients need it? We went to Jeena Varghese, M.D., for answers to these, and sev...
What is Radioiodine (I -131) Therapy and how is it used? ; Radioactive Iodine I-131 (also called Radioiodine I-131) therapy is a nuclear medicine treatment. Doctors use it to treat an overactive thyroid, a condition called hyperthyroidism. Hyperthyroidism can be caused by Graves' disease, in which the entire thyroid gland is overactive, or by nodules within the gland which are locally overactive in producing too much thyroid hormone. Nuclear medicine uses small amounts of radioactive material ca...
of thyroid cancer, we need an appropriate dose of treatment to maximize the treatment effect and minimize side effects,” she added. “We determine the use of radioactive iodine therapy...
2024 Thyroid Cancer NCCN GUIDELINES FOR PATIENTS® Presented with support from FOUNDATION... The thyroid uses a mineral from your diet called iodine to produce these hormones. Certain foods...
What is targeted drug therapy? ; Standard chemo drugs work by attacking rapidly growing cells, including cancer cells. But targeted drugs attack specific gene and protein changes inside thyroid cancer cells. These gene and protein changes are what make the cancer cells different from normal cells. The types of targeted drugs used to treat thyroid cancer are known as kinase inhibitors. Kinases are proteins inside cells that normally relay signals (such as telling the cell to grow). Blocking certain kinases can help treat some cancers. ...
The test helps your healthcare provider see how much radioactive iodine your thyroid has absorbed over a certain time period, usually 6 or 24 hours after taking radioactive iodine.1
Thyroid cancer treatments include surgery, radiation therapy, radioactive iodine therapy, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, targeted therapy, and observation. Learn more about the treatments used in n...