RAI increases risk of small bowel cancer

[Guest guest]

A study in the Lancet Journal of Medicine from June 1999 reports

that those of us who had RAI have a significantly higher incidence

of thyroid and small bowel cancer. That is not strange: guts and

thyroid share the same embryogenic origin. This subject had been

already reported at The New England Journal of Medicine -- March 12,

1998 -- Vol. 338, No. 11 , whose study was conducted in a cohort of

7209 subjects with hyperthyroidism, treated with radioactive iodine

between 1950 and 1989, which is certainly a high figure of people

for these kind of studies in a rare disease like ours. Not to speak

about radiation received by other organs, germinal cells included.

And all related to becoming hypo after RAI, increasing each year and

reaching 80% of cases ten years later.