Author: Gianpiero Pescarmona Date: 18/08/2008
Nuclear medicine is a branch of medicine and medical imaging that uses the nuclear properties of matter in diagnosis and therapy.
Radioiodine is used in nuclear medicine both diagnostically and therapeutically. Examples of its use in radiation therapy include the treatment of thyrotoxicosis and thyroid cancer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioiodine
Iodine 131 (thyroid cancer)
