Publications by authors named "Ingrid Haupt-Schott"
Article Synopsis
- Patients with a type of thyroid cancer often need to eat low iodine food for 1-2 weeks before a treatment called radioiodine remnant ablation (RRA).
- Different hospitals in the UK have different rules about how long patients should follow this low iodine diet.
- The study found that whether patients followed a low iodine diet for one week or two weeks didn’t really change the success of the treatment, and more research is needed to know the best approach.
Background And Aims: International guidelines on the treatment of differentiated thyroid cancers (DTC) promote the use of low iodine diets (LID) prior to radioactive iodine remnant ablation (RIA), as high iodine status may interfere with radioiodine uptake. Most UK treatment centres adhere to these guidelines and advise people to consume a LID. There is limited research as to how people cope with the LID or its impact on daily life and wellbeing, and no studies have been conducted in the UK.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Guidelines suggest that a low iodine diet (LID) is advised prior to radioiodine ablation (RIA) for thyroid cancer. We aim to describe current practice regarding LID advice in the UK, determine uptake of the 2016 UK LID Working Group diet sheet and discover whether there are differences in practice.
Methods: We used an online survey distributed between November 2018 and April 2019 to centres in the UK that administer I.