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Thyroid Cancer

Archives for May 2006

Is "Radioactive Iodine Treatment" radiation?
I am about to have the RAI done, and I'm a little confused. I understand what is involved, but I am having a hard time explaining it to family and friends. They keep asking me if it is radiation? Is it, technically? Am I having radiation done? Or is this RAI not considered radiation? The only terms people seem to be…
Hair loss
I had my thyroid removed a year ago due to thyroid cancer. Since then I have been experiencing hair loss off and on. It was really bad after I went off medicine for the RAI treatment and got better after being on Synthoid for a few months. Got levels down pretty low and then they started creeping back up and hair started…
Help with deciphering uptake scan results
Hello, After meeting with the ENT and telling him I refuse to "just watch" the septated cyst on my thyroid for 6 months, he agreed to a nuclear thyroid uptake scan. Two weeks after the test I got a phone call from the ENT's office saying they wanted to do a fine needle aspiration, but not to worry. They didn't tell me the…
Lymphoma survivor seeks thyroid answers
Hi, my name's Sally and I have Hodgkin Lymphoma. So why am I here at the thyroid section? I'm helping a friend research a possibility of thyroid cancer, and being signed up as a Hodgkins survivor, I thought I'd start here. First off, she went to the doc because she's been on a diet, she's been exercising and she's gained…
false positives
Has anyone every received a false positive on their I scans. I believe I did 6 years ago. I was diagnosed with papillary cancer had scan which showed mets to lung - had treatment radiation and rescanned showed same mets to lung plus a possible met to abdominal area. Doctor thought it was in my kidney. Went to another…

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