The trend in Radioiodine therapy for benign thyroid diseases in Denmark 1980 to 2006

摘要

This report focuses on 131-Iodine in treating benign thyroid disease in Denmark. Since the late 1980s the trend has been an increase in therapy and it is not until the last 6 years that a decline can be seen. The report will present several explanations to this trend, presented by several endocrinologists in Denmark. Furthermore, radiation protection of the administrating-, caretaking personnel at the hospital, family members and to the general public will be discussed, all based on ICRPs report Radiological Protection in Medicine (2007).