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In a message dated 11/2/2007 10:54:38 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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Does I-131 radiation treatment cause other problems for the body? >>>>
I certainly feel that it does. It is difficult to believe that a dose of
radioactive iodine large enough to kill the gland is not going to wreak havoc
elsewhere in the system. There is no minimum dose of radiation that does not
cause some damage to the cells exposed.
Too often, Mainstream Medicine has taken a cavalier attitude toward the
risks that are it subjects patients to, in general; but to the intrinsic risks
of ionizing radiation in particular.
The History of Medicine is filled with such horror stories as the wide
spread us a radioactive x-ray contrast material (Thorotrast) that was later found
to cause cancer in a large proportion of the patients it was given to. Well
baby exams once included x-ray fluoroscopy, a procedure even more dangerous
than plane x-rays and which was done during the life stage particularly
vulnerable to damaging effects of radiation.
Adolescents and children have been treated with damaging doses of x-rays for
things such as acne and tonsillitis. Because of the exposure of the thyroid
gland, thyroid cancers may show up decades later.
Of much concern is the three tissues that preferentially take up iodine
(radioactive or not): these include the Gut, the Thyroid, and Breast. It has been
established that x-ray procedures, such as mammography, increase the rate
of breast cancers; and some women carry a gene that greatly increases Breast
sensitivity to the carcinogenic effects of radiation. <<<<<
Once your
thyroid has been removed, does your body go to underactive functions if you
were overactive before? >>>>
Unfortunately, too often, the resultant Hypothyroidism that destruction of
the Thyroid causes is inadequately treated; and the patients are allowed to
languor in this state for the remainder of their (often shortened) life.
Doc Don
(AKA D. Michael, MD, PC)
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