Re: Radio 4 program on Thyroids

[Guest guest]

Hi Simon,

The link didn't work for me here in the US. What was it about?

Terry

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> Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 17:49:17 +0100

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> Subject: Radio 4 program on Thyroids

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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/rams/casenotes.ram

[Guest guest]

Aha! Got it. Boy do they make RAI sound like the no-brainer right decision.

Why not gloss over ALL the contraindications, eh?

Terry

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> Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 17:49:17 +0100

> To: graves_support

> Subject: Radio 4 program on Thyroids

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> Last weeks " Case Notes " might be of interest.

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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/rams/casenotes.ram

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> I think it will only be there for another 24 hours, so listen soon.

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> Simon

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[Guest guest]

Hi Simon

Thanks for the link. I wasnt able to hear the entire broadcast

because I kept disconnecting. I got less than halfway thru and had

to give up. I will keep trying though,....I just dont have the

patience right now.

Thanks again

Luci

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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/rams/casenotes.ram

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> I think it will only be there for another 24 hours, so listen soon.

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> Simon

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Aldyth Rae wrote:

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> OMG Simon, they are going to start using RAI more in this country?

Something you should realise by now is no two endo's agree on how to

treat thyroid disease.

Dr Mark Vanderpump is fairly objective and well aware of the issues

surrounding different forms of treatment. But he is not the type to

caveat his statements with all the possible exceptions, for one it might

take him too long.

I got the feeling Professor Lazarus (President as opposed to secretary

of the BTA) had slightly differing opinions given his comments following

Dr Vanderpump, I think he was being diplomatic.

Curiously Dr Toft has stated the opposite, that RAI use is on the

decline due to concerns over the risk to eyes.

I'm guessing only one of them can be right! It is either increasing or

decreasing or staying the same.

The stated levels of post RAI hypothyroidism suggest that it is used

with the intent to render patients euthyroid, since the levels of

hypothyroidism following RAI are much higher in the USA. Although they

didn't quote a source for the numbers.

Most in the UK are working from 1995 guidelines on hyperthyroidism by

the Royal College of Physicians, which understate the risk of eye

problems from RAI, in part because they were less well documented eight

years ago.

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