what will happen if you get radio iodide treatment to cure cancer and there were no cancer cells?
I did a whole body scan after a total thyroiddectomy that shows that there were some tissue in the neck that had some cancer cells
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you wouldnt have radio active treatment if there were no cancer cells.
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Radioactive iodine is given to kill the thyroid when you have problems with thyroid and to treat thyroid cancer. You just stated that scan found cancerous cells in neck tissue. Don't know how a scan could show individual cells, unless they were clumping together to form tumor. So, why are you asking about NOT finding cancerous cell when you just stated cancerous cells were found? Nosdda, you do NOT have any clue what you're talking about. Please don't give false or made up information. Actually Raww, a friend of mine DID have radioactive iodine to kill her thyroid after drs couldn't get it regulated, not for cancer. She now takes thyroid meds every day for the rest of her life.
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Radio Iodine treatment is mostly given when cancer cells do not respond to chemothreapy tratment. It is a sort of last resort. It is iodine radiation, and after the treatment you are in isolation for 3 weeks because the radiation dosage is so high.
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radio iodine kills thyroid cells, good or bad. the thyroid cells soak up the iodine and the radioactivity kills them. just went thru this 3 weeks ago. was in isolation for 5 days.
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