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I have low iodine diet before radio iodine treatment for thyroid cancers?
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Pre-treatment: You are on low iodine diet to keep normal iodine from competing with radio-iodine and interfering with the concentration of radio-iodine in the thyroid cancer. Wish you good health.
Answered 11/28/2017
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