If you have a thyroid problem, that actually makes the thyroid problem worse.

Over the last few decades there has been an increase with occurrences of this specific type of adenoma.

And after it leaves the pituitary, it goes into the circulation, and it acts on the thyroid where there are high receptors for TSH on the surface of the thyroid cells, and it stimulates the thyroid gland to make thyroid hormone, typically thyroxine (T4), or triiodothyronine (T3).

Those are the two main circulating thyroid hormones.

Thyroid hormone is critical to normal function of cells.

An important component of this project is the strengthening of the local capability for the early detection of thyroid cancer and other thyroid diseases.

TSH it makes, if the levels are too low, it will stimulate production of TSH to make the thyroid gland make more thyroid hormone.

Lack of dietary iodine causes growth stimulation in the thyroid, and some studies suggest that iodine deficiency increases the risk of radiation induced thyroid cancer.

When there is too much thyroid hormone, the TSH will be low.

Diseases of concern are thyroid cancer, benign tumours, autoimmune thyroiditis and hypothyroidism.

Two additional sites, namely thyroid and skin, have significant excess incident cancers.

In contrast, thyroid damage may occur at doses as low as about 1 Gy.

20. Of the radionuclides emitting low LET radiation that may enter the body, iodine 131 is the most important, since it is used to diagnose thyroid conditions and to treat hyperthyroidism and thyroid carcinoma.

Potassium iodide blocks thyroid absorption of radioactive iodine, an early risk in a nuclear release.

We're going to plunge into the body now, and we've landed in the thyroid gland.

49. The thyroid project deals with the detection, characterization and treatment of selected thyroid diseases in children living in the strictly controlled areas (where levels of radiocaesium contamination exceed 15 Ci km², or 550 kBq m²).

If there is too much thyroid hormone, every function of the body tends to speed up.

5. Special attention continued to be given to the incidence of thyroid cancer, particularly in Belarus.

The article described a successful treatment of a patient with thyroid cancer metastases using radioiodine (I 131).

Thyroid hormone is important at a cellular level, affecting nearly every type of tissue in the body.

Thyroid hormone functions as a controller of the pace of all of the processes in the body.

Hypothalamus in the midbrain, pituitary gland nestled close by, thyroid, here, pancreas, here, adrenals, here, ovaries, here.

Excess radioiodine that does not get absorbed into the thyroid gland is eliminated by the body in urine.

Propylthiouracil also works outside the thyroid gland, preventing conversion of (mostly inactive) T4 to the active form T3.

Such materials and patient data are essential for good molecular cancer epidemiology, especially for radiation induced thyroid cancers.

The most alarming aspect of this is the increase in the incidence of cancer of the thyroid gland.

And then you see pretty much the inverse picture when someone has a deficiency of thyroid hormone hypothyroidism.

In addition, the long term epidemiological study of thyroid cancer incidence in the affected areas was a high priority.

According to UNSCEAR, up to the year 2005, an excess of over 6000 cases of thyroid cancer have been reported.

Preliminary results suggest that thyroid doses might have been as high as 10 Gy in some years in the 1940s.

As a result, the incidence of thyroid cancer, especially among irradiated children and adolescents, rose to levels unprecedented in world history.

Thyroid doses in the region of 1 Gy, protracted over two weeks, resulted in hypothyroidism in patients treated by cranial radiotherapy.

So, it's critical to maintain just the right amount of all of these hormones, and thyroid hormones is a good example.

Many patients are initially unhappy at the thought of having to take a thyroid hormone pill for the rest of their lives.

In 1926 the Japanese physician Tetsushiro Shinosaki, from Fukuoka, observed the high rate of thyroid disease in Japanese people with periodic paralysis.

The thyroid doses to children near the Nevada test site in the United States may have been as much as 1 Gy.

Iodine 131 appears to be less effective than external radiation in causing thyroid cancer, perhaps by a factor of three to five.

Support was required to continue and expand the projects on thyroid, haematology, developmental brain disorders and standardized registration of data and information.

Similar, but somewhat larger, thyroid doses were incurred between 1949 and 1962 in settlements bordering the Semipalatinsk test site in the former USSR.

So, I'll give you an example, one of the hormones made by the pituitary is called the thyroid stimulating hormone, or the TSH.

Between 1986 and 1992 the number of cases of cancer of the thyroid gland in children increased by a factor of more than 32.

In the same way, you don't have to think about how you work your thyroid gland, or whatever else it is in your organism.

Iodine is also an essential trace element, but this element is used as part of the structure of thyroid hormones rather than as an enzyme cofactor.

During most visits he had complaints concerning his general health, including a bad back, gastric ulcer, kidney infection and thyroid problems, causing, inter alia, sleeping problems.

For some sites of cancer, including breast, leukaemia and thyroid, there are a number of very useful results from studies other than the Life Span Study.