Dedicated at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, on Oct. 8, 2021. On a spring day in Boston in 1941, a young doctor from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) met a woman for a drink. But this was ...

A new study addresses the "holy grail" in thyroid oncology: how to jump-start radioactive iodine treatment when it stops working for patients with thyroid cancer. The investigators report that a ...

Doctors have used radioiodine therapy, a type of nuclear medicine treatment, since the 1940s. Now, a new generation of radiopharmaceuticals offers expanded treatment options for people with some types ...

THE northern and southern hemispheres were contaminated with iodine-131 during 1968. Most of the contamination correlated with announced tests of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, but some additions ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers conducted a prospective, randomized, phase 3 trial including 730 patients with low-risk ...

Treatment with radioactive iodine (radioiodine) was able to cure 92% of patients with thyrotoxicosis in a single-center New Zealand study of 222 patients treated in 2015. The study provides ...

Health care specialists share insight on the work-up of patients with iodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer and how this may affect systemic therapy options. Lori Wirth, MD: Let’s chat a ...

From the data presented in this report, it is apparent that exposure of susceptible populations to radioiodine from a radiation incident poses an increased risk of thyroid cancer and other thyroid ...

Considerations for how dosing and dose reductions can be used to optimize use of lenvatinib for iodine-refractory DTC. Lori Wirth, MD: Another thing that we’ve done, Jim, is occasionally we’ve held ...

For decades, radiation has been a cornerstone of thyroid cancer care. But it may soon be phased out entirely for many thyroid tumors as emerging research casts doubt on whether it benefits patients. A ...