Radioiodine therapy

Experienced nuclear physicians throughout the world have applied radioiodine therapy of the thyroid for more than 50 years. On the basis of statistical examinations of more than 100.000 treated patients it could be established that radioiodine treatment does not lead to an increase of thyroid cancer or other malignant affections in the body. The exposure the body receives is equivalent to that it receives during thorough X-ray examination.

For reasons of radiation protection the therapy has to be administered as in-patient therapy, since the patients emit radioactivity with their excreta (urine, stool, sweat and saliva) as well as with the air they breathe. The entire sewage of the therapy ward is to be collected in a liquid waste storage plant and not to be discharged into the public sewer network until its level of radioactivity has fallen below the legal limit for drinking water.