Thyrogen- no longer available for thyroid cancer treatment

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Hello everyone

A friend's husband is being treated for thyroid cancer. His thyroid was removed

yesterday and he is on T3. He will then have radioactive iodine treatment which

requires him to come off the T3 so the symptoms of hypothyroidism will be

dreadful. They used to give Thyrogen which enabled the patient to continue on

the T3, rather than stopping, but this is no longer available for some reason.

Anyone know more?

Thereafter he'll be on T4 only and will be tested to see if the cancer has gone

and if not, he has to go through the radioactive treatment again.

Grateful to know if anyone has any comments that will help this lovely family.

LLx