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Learn about radioactive iodine therapy

Radioactive Iodine for Thyroid Cancer

Radioactive iodine therapy is used after a thyroidectomy to treat two types of thyroid cancer: papillary thyroid cancer and follicular thyroid cancer. Radioactive iodine is also called radioiodine remnant ablation, and you may hear your doctor refer to it by that name.
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