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 ...
Furthermore, in order to prove that the iodine restriction was responsible for the recovery of the thyroid function, we confirmed that all patients had persistent hypothyroidism by evaluating ...
Standardized incidence ratios elevated for all nonkeratinocyte skin cancers, melanoma. HealthDay News — Patients with primary thyroid cancer who receive radioactive iodine therapy have an ...
Dietary iodine intake in Japan varies from as little as 0.1 mg/day to as much as 20 mg/day. The present study was undertaken to assess the frequency of iodine-induced reversible hypothyroidism in ...
This may involve regular imaging studies such as ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), iodine-131 diagnostic scans, or positron-emission tomography (PET) to assess for the presence of cancer cells in ...