According to numerous sources, there is no direct prevention for Thyroid Cancer, although there are indirect ways to reduce risk, including:
- Avoid radiation
- Iodine supplements - if diet is deficient in iodine
- Salt with added iodine - commonly used in the USA
- Prophylactic thyroidectomy - rarely used except for familial inherited types.
[Editor's note: The amount of iodine in iodized salt is only enough to prevent goiter. However, in earlier times, the general amount of iodine intake was far greater than it is today, and doctors used to prescribe iodine as a universal cure-all. Interested readers might care to research this on their own. Today there are also genetic blood tests which can help evaluate an individual's risk of developing the familial types of Thyroid Cancer.]
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