Radioactive iodine caused thousands of cases of thyroid cancer in children after the Chernobyl accident.
His TV career was curtailed in 2002 when he was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer.
Thyroid cancer is a cancerous growth of the thyroid gland, which is located in the neck.
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Argentina's Cristina Fernandez, 58, is due to have surgery for thyroid cancer on 4 January.
The 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown did not result in any measure-able uptick in thyroid cancer cases.
She suffers from thyroid cancer, which she blames on her work, and has received scant medical compensation.
Her lung cancer would almost certainly end her life long before her thyroid cancer caused any trouble.
Liraglutide does not boost thyroid cancer risk in monkeys even when they are given enormous doses, he says.
But thyroid cancer is extremely rare and the normal lifetime risk of developing it is about 0.75 percent.
The presenter was given the all-clear for thyroid cancer in January last year.
His remarks came shortly after his ally, Argentine President Cristina Kirchner, said she would undergo treatment for thyroid cancer.
We could monitor the thyroid cancer and plan surgery in a few months.
And if the FDA thinks thyroid cancer is a real risk, does it also apply to other drugs like Byetta?
There are certainly many cancers that radiation can induce in addition to thyroid cancer, from breast and prostate cancer to various leukemias.
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After the Chernobyl disaster, about 6, 000 children exposed to radiation later developed thyroid cancer, because many drank contaminated milk after the accident.
The tissue analysis during the operation confirmed a diagnosis of thyroid cancer.
On top of that, one of the biggest worries at the time of the accident thyroid cancer did not prove as bad as feared.
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The biggest risk was seen in thyroid cancer, which for infant girls could be up to 70% higher than expected over their lifetime.
Vandetanib, the drug approved today, failed in non-small cell lung cancer and in bladder cancer before it proved effective in medullary thyroid cancer.
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The FDA approval for Bydureon requires Amylin to conduct additional testing to further assess the drug's impact on thyroid cancer and cardiovascular disease.
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The Wall Street Journal reported that Mr. Thompson disclosed to the company's board before resigning that he had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
Radioactive iodine treatment may also be used to treat thyroid cancer that recurs after treatment or that spreads to other areas of the body.
And, almost all of the radioactive material released was iodine-131, associated with thyroid cancer, which is one of the slowest growing and least deadly cancers.
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Experts had been particularly worried about a spike in thyroid cancer, since iodine released in nuclear accidents is absorbed by the thyroid, especially in children.
He loved movies so much, he kept on watching them and writing about them every day long after an aggressive thyroid cancer ate away his jaw.
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Medullary thyroid cancer involves specific types of cells that are found in the thyroid gland and can occur spontaneously, or be part of a genetic syndrome.
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The radioactive iodine is taken up primarily by thyroid cells and thyroid cancer cells, so there's a low risk of harming other cells in your body.
As I wandered through my twenties and early thirties, I kept an ear cocked for any information I might come across about what causes thyroid cancer.
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Radioactive iodine treatment is often used after thyroidectomy to destroy any remaining healthy thyroid tissue, as well as microscopic areas of thyroid cancer that weren't removed during surgery.
About 44, 600 new thyroid cancer cases were diagnosed in the United States during 2010, and about 1, 690 people died from the disease, according to the National Cancer Institute.
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