Stable iodine as thyroid blocking agent in nuclear accidents.

The effects of iodine blocking on thyroid cancer, hypothyroidism and benign thyroid nodules following nuclear accidents: a systematic review.

A potential radiation protection method to reduce the risk of adverse health outcomes in the case of accidental radioactive iodine release is the administration of potassium iodide (KI). Although KI administration is recommended by WHO's Guidelines for Iodine Prophylaxis following Nuclear Accidents, a systematic review of the scientific evidence for the guidelines is lacking. Therefore, this st...

The Feasibility of Thyroid Treatment with 99mTc Radiopharmaceuticals and Stable Iodine as Contrast Agent Using MCNP Simulation Code

Introduction: Nowadays, radioisotopes have a lot of therapeutic and diagnostic applications in nuclear medicine. The technetium-99m radioisotope is widely used in the diagnostic field. The technetium-99m radioisotope is widely used in the diagnostic field. In this study, in order to increase the absorption dose in thyroid cancer cells, the radioactive drug technetium-99m which ...

The Effects of Iodine Blocking Following Nuclear Accidents on Thyroid Cancer, Hypothyroidism and Benign Thyroid Nodules Part of: WHO guidelines for iodine thyroid blocking in a nuclear or radiological accident

The effects of iodine blocking following nuclear accidents on thyroid cancer, hypothyroidism, and benign thyroid nodules: design of a systematic review

BACKGROUND One of the most efficient radiation protection methods to reduce the risk of adverse health outcomes in case of accidental radioactive iodine release is the administration of potassium iodine (KI). Although KI administration is recommended by WHO's guidelines for iodine prophylaxis following nuclear accidents and is also widely implemented in most national guidelines, the scientific ...

Radioactive Iodine as an Indicator in Thyroid

The use of radioactive iodine as an indicator in thyroid physiology has been described by Hertz, Roberts and Evans (1) and by Hertz, Roberts, Means and Evans (2, 3). Hamilton and Soley (4) have published data obtained by the use of radioactive iodine on goiter patients of several types. We have administered radioactive iodine (mainly the 8-day isotope I's1), obtained by bombarding tellurium wit...