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- Title
Use of Radioactive Iodine for Thyroid Cancer.
- Authors
Haymart, Megan R.; Banerjee, Mousumi; Stewart, Andrew K.; Koenig, Ronald J.; Birkmeyer, John D.; Griggs, Jennifer J.
- Abstract
The article focuses on a study on the practice patterns of hospitals regarding the use of radioactive iodine for treating thyroid cancer. It is said that radioactive iodine use tend to depend at the discretion of the physician due to the lack of randomized controlled trials that evaluate the utility of the medication relative to the severity of the disease. Results show that radioactive iodine for thyroid cancer treatment increased across all tumor sizes between 1990 to 2008 while hospital use of such medication is said to vary due to unexplained hospital characteristics. Findings indicate that radioactive iodine use is influenced by other factors aside from disease severity.
- Subjects
THYROID cancer treatment; CANCER radiotherapy research; THERAPEUTIC use of iodine; TUMOR treatment; CANCER patients; CANCER treatment
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2011, Vol 306, Issue 7, p721
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2011.1139