The current literature on radionuclide therapy is heavily based on health care professionals' perspectives and provides little insight regarding what patients or family members identify as their needs or concerns. Family members (N = 130) of patients undergoing treatment with radioactive iodine were selected from eight programs across Canada to participate in a survey to identify the needs they...

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background : the aim of the current study was to develop a marking technique as an internal marker to mark post blood meal mosquitoes by using stable phosphate isotope 32 p and determine the optimal concentration of it. methods : an isotonic physiological saline solution, containing different concentration of radioactive isotope 32 p-labeled disodium phosphate (na 2 h 32 po4) was injected into ...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Atherosclerosis evolves or accelerates when arteries are exposed to ionizing radiation, both early and late after exposure. Radioiodine therapy of benign thyroid disease exposes the carotid arteries to 4-50 Gy, and may thereby increase the risk of atherosclerosis. Increased risk of cerebrovascular events has been reported after radioiodine therapy. This study aimed to examine...

Objective(s): We investigated a frequency of lower extremity uptake on the radioactive iodine (RAI) whole body scan (WBS) after RAI treatment in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer, in order to retrospectively examine whether or not the frequency was pathological. Methods: This retrospective study included 170 patients with thyroid cancer, undergoing RAI treatment. Overall, 99r (58%) an...

Aims: Dry mouth of individuals causes many oral discomforts and undesirable conditions. In order to prevent such an situation from occurring, it is aimed complete the Radioactive Iodine Therapy (RAI) treatment with less damage by mastering all possible factors. our study, we find level effect age factor.
 Methods: this included patients who received high-dose radioactive iodine after total...

BACKGROUND In early breast cancer, the optimal technique for sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is the combined technique (radioisotope and Patent Blue V) which achieves high identification rates. Despite this, many centres have decided to stop using blue dye due to blue-dye-related complications (tattoo, anaphylaxis). We evaluated the SLNB identification rate using the combined technique with a...

BACKGROUND The complementarity determining region 3 (CDR3) of the immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy chain variable region (VH) is the most reliable molecular fingerprint for most if not all human B cells. The nucleotide sequence encoding for any B-cell tumor-specific VH CDR3 is currently identified by PCR sequencing based on procedures involving the usage of either radioactive materials, patient/family...

The incidence of thyroid cancer has increased markedly in recent decades, but has been stable in terms of mortality rates. For the most part, these cancers are treated with surgery, which may or may not be followed by radioactive iodine depending on the tumor subtype. Still, many of these cancers will recur and may be treated with radioactive iodine or another surgery. It is unclear what treatm...