What is 'radioactive iodine therapy'?

What is 'radioactive iodine therapy'?

Hossein Jadvar (Doctor) gives expert video advice on: How is radioactive iodine therapy used in treatment of thyroid cancer?; What are the benefits and risks of radioactive iodine therapy?; Are there limitations to radioactive iodine therapy? and more...

Well radioactive iodine therapy is the treatment of two major disorders of the thyroid gland and that is hyperthyroidism, for example, people with Graves' disease when their thyroid is hyper functioning or for treatment of thyroid cancer. So those are the two major areas that radio iodine is used for treatment.