If there is not enough dietary iodine, the thyroid swells up in an effort to make more hormones, a condition that is called hypothyroidism (an underactive thyroid). The swelling is called goitre. Important iodine facts. 1  Iodine deficiency in pregnancy causes a severe form of retardation in the child called cretinism. 2  Until well into this century, iodine deficiency was a serious problem in the western world. 3  To solve the iodine problem, salt producers began adding iodine to table salt around 1924.
What is IPT? Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT) is an effective alternative cancer treatment. It uses a combination of two traditional drugs â insulin and a chemotherapy drug. Some decades ago it was discovered that cancer cells had highly active insulin receptors, making them âsugar hungryâ.
Radiation therapy or radiotherapy, often abbreviated RT, RTx, or XRT, is therapy using ionizing radiation, generally as part of cancer treatment to control or kill malignant cells. Radiation therapy may be curative in a number of types of cancer if they are localized to one area of the body.It may also be used as part of adjuvant therapy, to prevent tumor recurrence after surgery to remove a primary malignant tumor (for example, early stages of breast cancer).he precise treatment intent (curative, adjuvant, neoadjuvant, therapeutic, or palliative) will depend on the tumor type, location, and stage, as well as the general health of the patient. Total body irradiation (TBI) is a radiation therapy technique used to prepare the body to receive a bone marrow transplant.