Butterfly Thyroid Cancer Trust : I131 Treatment : Where will I have my treatment?

After deciding on the date for your admission, you will receive a letter from Nuclear Medicine Department regarding your admission and whole body scan. On the day of admission you will need to attend Nuclear Medicine Department for blood samples. For females with childbearing capacity a sample of blood will be taken to exclude pregnancy.

Pregnant women and those who are currently breast feeding must not be administered radioiodine treatment.

After you are reviewed in nuclear medicine you can make your way to Ward 35.

You will be met by the ward clerk or one of the nursing staff and then shown to the radioiodine suite.The nurses and doctor will then admit you to the ward, taking blood pressure, pulse and temperature.

Radioiodine (I131) Treatment for Thyroid Cancer

Where will I have my treatment?