The utility of low-iodine diet in preparation for thyroid cancer therapy with radioactive iodine-A cohort study

• Main Authors: Hongxiu Luo (Author), Andrew Tobey (Author), Sungyoung Auh (Author), Craig Cochran (Author), Noha Behairy (Author), Maria Merino (Author), Marina Zemskova (Author), Joanna Klubo-Gwiezdzinska (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: A low-iodine diet (LID) of <50μ iodine/day is recommended as preparation for radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). The 24-h urinary iodine excretion (UIE) is utilized to evaluate the iodine-depleted status. The aim of this study was to t...