I was thinking about this over the weekend - what is odd is that thyroid cancer is almost 100% curable with I-131 - the patients actually drink it - and it is a scary-looking lime green radioactive substance. But, people get torn up over someone wanting to use a concentrated substance from seeds to treat cancer, because it may be dangerous?
I used to work as a nursing assistant at the Markey Cancer Center at the University of KY, where Dr. Ain practices, and is notoriously the best thyroid oncologist in the nation. He cured my 17 yo cousin of thyroid cancer this way (over 8 years ago)- surgery, drinking I-131, and small amounts of chemo.
I guess it works because it effectively kills the thyroid entirely? I'm not sure on that, but I think it's odd that the one treatment which works so well on thyroid cancer, is also the isotope which causes thyroid cancer and malfunction after radioactive events.
I had the 131 pill to kill my over active thyroid. They told me the people who take the pill actually have less chance of getting cancer than those who do not. That's probably garbage of course, but who knows for sure.
The pill I took was in a thick lead case, and the person who opened the case was wearing a full hazmat and lead protective suit. I was standing in the room with nothing on, and I picked up the pill and ate it. LOL My pee was pretty green for a day or so too.
What really bugs me is that my thyroid probably would not have gone nuts if it were not for my terrible diet of tons of table sugar at the time. I was shocking my system badly, and a proper diet at the time probably would have avoided the Grave's Disease in the first place.