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(CNN)-- Going back to the 1940s, radioactive iodine has been among the treatments for an overactive thyroid. It's absorbed mostly by the thyroid gland, destroying those cells. But it has also been ...

A new treatment involving a gel-like substance and radioactive iodine-131 eliminated pancreatic tumors in 75% of mice. The corresponding study was published in Nature Biomedical Engineering. "We did a ...

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Just in case, Japan has distributed a whole bunch of potassium iodide to evacuation centers near the troubled Fukushima Daiichi and Fukushima Daini nuclear power plants. The International Atomic ...

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Amid debate between thyroid and nuclear medicine communities on the use of radioactive iodine therapy (I-131; RAI) for the treatment of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC), leaders of four societies ...

For many years, radioactive iodine which emits beta rays has been used for treatment of thyroid cancer. Generally, 5-year survival rates may exceed 90%. However, some thyroid tumors become resistant ...