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Can you get radiation sickness from radioactive iodine uptake scan using i-123?
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No: The dose is much too small. Talk w/your doctor if you're concerned.
Answered 7/1/2014
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No: Not in the diagnostic doses used in nuclear medicine.
Answered 11/19/2014
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