• Home
  • Blogs
  • Thyroid Roadmap
  • Login
  • ☰

Thyroid Healing

  • Home
  • Blogs
  • Thyroid Roadmap
  • Login

nnkjn

Membership Questions

  • Difference Between Pausing And Cancelling Your Account
  • How Does The Billing Work?
  • Is This Right For Me If I Am New To Healing?
  • What If I Don’t Have The Time To Keep Up?
  • What Is Your Cancellation Policy?

Food Questions

  • Can I Have Dairy?
  • Can I Have Gluten?
  • Is Fasting Ok To Do?
  • Is There A Diet That Helps Thyroid Disease?
  • What Foods To Add To My Diet?
  • What Foods To Avoid?

Thyroid Questions

  • How Do I Know If I Have An Autoimmune Disease?
  • How Often To Get Tested?
  • How To Lower TPO Antibodies?
  • Thyroid Test I Need?
  • What Are Optimal Lab Ranges
  • Why Am I Told My Labs Are Normal But Feel Symptoms

Hyperthyroidism Questions

  • Is RAI Therapy Safe?
  • What to do if you are considering RAI?
  • What To Do If You Did RAI?

Thyroid & Stress

  • What are ways you can deal with the stress of thyroid disease?

Thyroid Medication Questions

  • Can I Get Off Medication?
  • Can You Overdose On Thyroid Medication?
  • How Come I Am On Medication And Don’t Feel Better?
  • When And How To Take Thyroid Medication?
  • Home
  • Knowledge Base
  • Hyperthyroidism Questions
  • Is RAI Therapy Safe?

Is RAI Therapy Safe?

RAI, which stands for radioactive iodine ablation, is a procedure commonly used to treat hyperthyroidism and Graves’ disease. It’s also used to treat other conditions such as toxic multinodular goiter and thyroid cancer but most people get this procedure done for hyperthyroidism.

When you are in a state of hyperthyroidism everything in your body is in overdrive. If untreated this can be harmful to the body so most doctors suggest RAI. This is a procedure which has been used since the 1940s to destroy the thyroid gland.

The logic behind it was no thyroid gland which means no excess thyroid hormone production,

A new study  suggests that there is a fairly strong connection between undergoing RAI and your risk of cancer as you progress through life.

This study, which looked at over 18,000 people, showed a positive correlation between the dose of radiation received during RAI in various tissues and your risk of developing cancer in those tissues. This means that the higher the dose of radiation you are exposed to, the higher your risk of developing cancer becomes. Just being exposed to radiation does not guarantee that you develop cancer though, so I don’t want you to think that.

The study found: For every 1,000 patients treated with RAI, about 13 of that 1,000 would die of cancer of the breast or stomach if they received a dose of 100 mGy or more

Still stuck? Submit you question.

How can we help?

Updated on July 30, 2021
What to do if you are considering RAI?

Powered by BetterDocs

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




Thyroid Healing Concepts