Patients with primary thyroid cancer who receive radioactive iodine therapy have an elevated risk for melanoma and other nonkeratinocyte skin cancers when limiting the cancer site to the head and neck ...
Iodine excess is a well-known exogenous factor that causes hypothyroidism. Iodine induces suppression of TSH-stimulated cyclic AMP production and protein iodination in vitro. [12] Administration ...
In nine patients who had a repeated test before iodine restriction with an interval of 2-3 weeks, persistent hypothyroidism was confirmed based on the evidence suggesting failure of serum TSH to ...