Medically reviewed by Doru Paul, MD A low-iodine diet is prescribed before diagnostic radioactive iodine uptake (RAIU) tests and before radioactive iodine treatments. The RAIU test is an imaging scan ...

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Radioactive iodine can be used to help treat people with thyroid cancer. Because your thyroid absorbs nearly all of the iodine you take in, radioactive iodine is able to destroy cancer cells in ...