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Not a lot of people realise that radiation treatment can affect your thyroid gland which can in turn give cause to all sorts of problems including cardiac disease. My brother-in-law had radiation treatment for throat cancer and he subsequently died in March of this year from heart failure. It seems they didn't check his thyroid for 6 years and he had hypothyroidism almost certainly caused by the radiation treatment. Sometimes we are so focused on 'curing' our PCa that we can forget that we may succumb to some other more serious condition such as heart disease. A member of our support group telephoned me the other day to say he had been diagnosed with a thyroid problem. He had brachytherapy in September 2001.

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Prostate Cancer Treatment Can Affect The Thyroid

Research reported on in the Journal of Urology has found that the use of implanted radioactive "seeds" as a prostate cancer treatment may affect the thyroid. In this type of treatment, known as brachytherapy, the small seeds, which contain radioactive iodine, can break open and the iodine then is absorbed by the thyroid. So far, the risk is considered fairly small, but if the radiation dose to the thyroid was deemed to be fairly significant, the researchers have said that "preventive medication -- such as iodine solution -- would be given to minimize possible complications." Iodine solution can partially block the gland's ability to absorb

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said:

>Sometimes we are so focused on 'curing' our PCa that we can forget that we

may succumb......

Very true. Here's another example.

Advanced disease may result in loss of kidney function to one degree or

another if either or both ureters are compromised by, for example, pressure

from nearby nodes or bladder neck/mucosa involvement. If the compromise is

gradual, then kidney function will decline with no initial obvious symptoms.

The only way to spot this decline early is with regular kidney function

blood tests.

The Medscape article below deals with compromised kidney function in general

rather than that attributable to PCa, and links into potential hypertension

problems, and on to possible CV involvement.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/491103_1

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Affect The Thyroid

Not a lot of people realise that radiation treatment can affect your thyroid

gland which can in turn give cause to all sorts of problems including

cardiac disease. My brother-in-law had radiation treatment for throat

cancer and he subsequently died in March of this year from heart failure. It

seems they didn't check his thyroid for 6 years and he had hypothyroidism

almost certainly caused by the radiation treatment. Sometimes we are so

focused on 'curing' our PCa that we can forget that we may succumb to some

other more serious condition such as heart disease. A member of our support

group telephoned me the other day to say he had been diagnosed with a

thyroid problem. He had brachytherapy in September 2001.

Regards

Prostate Cancer Treatment Can Affect The Thyroid

Research reported on in the Journal of Urology has found that the use of

implanted radioactive " seeds " as a prostate cancer treatment may affect the

thyroid. In this type of treatment, known as brachytherapy, the small seeds,

which contain radioactive iodine, can break open and the iodine then is

absorbed by the thyroid. So far, the risk is considered fairly small, but if

the radiation dose to the thyroid was deemed to be fairly significant, the

researchers have said that " preventive medication -- such as iodine

solution -- would be given to minimize possible complications. " Iodine

solution can partially block the gland's ability to absorb

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Sorry to hear about your brother-in-law but I'd have thought his RT for throat

cancer was more likely than prostate seeds to cause problems (since the thyroid

is in the throat area). This is not to dismiss your subject heading, however, as

I understand HT for PCa could have an effect on the interpretation of thyroid

hormone readings and the thyroid is implicated in many functions by one means

and another...

Not a lot of people realise that radiation treatment can affect your thyroid gland which can in turn give cause to all sorts of problems including cardiac disease. My brother-in-law had radiation treatment for throat cancer and he subsequently died in March of this year from heart failure. It seems they didn't check his thyroid for 6 years and he had hypothyroidism almost certainly caused by the radiation treatment. Sometimes we are so focused on 'curing' our PCa that we can forget that we may succumb to some other more serious condition such as heart disease. A member of our support group telephoned me the other day to say he had been diagnosed with a thyroid problem. He had brachytherapy in September 2001.

Regards

Prostate Cancer Treatment Can Affect The Thyroid

Research reported on in the Journal of Urology has found that the use of implanted radioactive "seeds" as a prostate cancer treatment may affect the thyroid. In this type of treatment, known as brachytherapy, the small seeds, which contain radioactive iodine, can break open and the iodine then is absorbed by the thyroid. So far, the risk is considered fairly small, but if the radiation dose to the thyroid was deemed to be fairly significant, the researchers have said that "preventive medication -- such as iodine solution -- would be given to minimize possible complications." Iodine solution can partially block the gland's ability to absorb

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In the article that linked, it states that the seeds contain

radioactive iodine which can break open and then be absorbed by the

thyroid. As a thyroid cancer survivor and having had experience in

raidoactive iodine treatments for thyroid ablation, I can knowingly

say that the radioactive iodine destroys the thyroid. In the case

of seed therapy, is seems it can destroy enough to make a person

hypothyroid, which can cause many problems if left untreated.

-Tina

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> Not a lot of people realise that radiation treatment can affect

your thyroid

> gland which can in turn give cause to all sorts of problems

including cardiac

> disease. My brother-in-law had radiation treatment for throat

cancer and he

> subsequently died in March of this year from heart failure. It

seems they

> didn't check his thyroid for 6 years and he had hypothyroidism

almost certainly

> caused by the radiation treatment. Sometimes we are so focused

on 'curing' our

> PCa that we can forget that we may succumb to some other more

serious condition

> such as heart disease. A member of our support group telephoned

me the other

> day to say he had been diagnosed with a thyroid problem. He had

> brachytherapy in September 2001.

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> Regards

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> Prostate Cancer Treatment Can Affect The Thyroid

> Research reported on in the Journal of Urology has found that the

use of

> implanted radioactive " seeds " as a prostate cancer treatment may

affect the

> thyroid. In this type of treatment, known as brachytherapy, the

small seeds, which

> contain radioactive iodine, can break open and the iodine then is

absorbed by

> the thyroid. So far, the risk is considered fairly small, but if

the radiation

> dose to the thyroid was deemed to be fairly significant, the

researchers have

> said that " preventive medication -- such as iodine solution --

would be given

> to minimize possible complications. " Iodine solution can partially

block the

> gland's ability to absorb

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