Systemic Radiation Therapy
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We use systemic radiation therapy to treat some thyroid cancers. This type of radiation therapy delivers radioactive materials, such as iodine 131, to a patient either orally or through an injection. The thyroid absorbs most of the iodine and the rest passes out of the body in the urine. Radioactive iodine is often given after thyroid surgery to destroy any remaining cancerous tissues.
Because the radioactive materials can leave the body through urine, saliva and other fluids, special precautions are taken in the days immediately following treatment so the radiation does not affect the people around the patient. This may include: a hospital stay, avoiding sharing utensils or other personal items, sleeping alone, and limited contact with children and pregnant women.
Radiation Therapy
- 3D Conformal Radiation
- Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI)
- BrainLAB SRS
- Calypso® 4D Localization System™
- Contura™
- Cyberknife (see Stereotactic Radiosurgery)
- Deep Tissue Hyperthermia
- External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT)
- Gamma Knife (see Stereotactic Radiosurgery)
- High-Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy
- Hyperthermia (also see Local Hyperthermia, Deep Tissue Hyperthermia)
- Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
- Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)
- Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT)
- LightSpeed RT
- Local Hyperthermia
- MammoSite® RTS
- Radioactive Protectants
- Rapid Arc™
- Respiratory Gating
- Radioiodine Ablation (see Systemic Radiation Therapy)
- Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS)
- Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)
- Systemic Radiation Therapy
- TheraSphere®
- TomoTherapy® HI-ART
- Total Body Irradiation (TBI)
- Total Marrow Irradiation (TMI)
- Trilogy™
