Nuclear medicine therapy uses radiopharmaceuticals targeting specific tumours, such as thyroid, lymphomas or bone metastases ... The biological action of a radiopharmaceutical is determined by the ...
A radioactive iodine uptake test, or RAIU, is typically performed with a thyroid scan to help determine thyroid health and functioning. The test helps your healthcare provider see how much radioactive ...
I am a nuclear medicine physicist at Karolinska Institutet. My research focuses on clinical radionuclide therapy and therapy-related imaging, with a penchant for thyroid cancer. I defended my PhD ...
Despite the rarity of this presentation, our case highlights the importance of carefully evaluating a thyroid nodule in order to determine whether it is malignant. In the case described, there were ...
It has a good prognosis. Risk factors include a family history of this cancer, radiation exposure, and low dietary iodine. Thyroid cancer may be detected incidentally with imaging studies done for ...