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From: "Rodney Pont"
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:12:04 -0600, Will Honea wrote:
>As for the iodine, at your age you will not live long enough to see any
>effects anyway. In fact, that concern is only applicable to infants for all
>realistic purposes. I underwent radiation treatment for Hodgkins Lymphoma
>15 years back where the principle site was the nasal pharnyx so the main
>path was right through the throat area. After 5 years of close monitoring
>of thyroid function, the oncologist dismissed me and said to just keep an
>eye on it. I just started thyroid suppliments this Spring so even 35
>sessions of direct radiation therapy had only minimal effect.
Radioactive iodine is used to kill off the thyroid. It's absorbed by
the thyroid cells and kills them. I had it for Graves disease and now
have no thyroid function. Radiation treatment doesn't involve ingesting
radioactive iodine and the thyroid isn't any more susceptible to
passing radiation than any other cells. It's just that the radioactive
iodine is stored in them for long enough to kill them.
The iodine tablets are so that the thyroid stores that iodine and
doesn't need any more so doesn't absorb the radioactive iodine. Iodine
tablets shouldn't be taken 'just in case' though. Too much iodine can
damage the thyroid as well.
Radioactive iodine can also stop the cells reproducing so that they do
not get replaced when they die off naturally. The cells have a life
expectancy of something like seven years so it can take that long to
see the full effects but it will be noticed long before then.
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