Re: Cancer from PI?

From: Leslie Armstrong-Lea (leslie.armstrong-lea@colostate.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 22 2002 - 14:50:26 EST


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Hi Flow Cytometry List,
	Thank you to all of you who responded to my note.  Thank you
Howard Shipiro and Richard Hougland for the information about Propidium
Iodide.  As I said in my post, the nuclear medicine doctor knew nothing
at all about PI, he was just curious if it could have been a cause of
my thyroid cancer because of the iodine component.  However, that
appears to not be the case, if the "propidium" part and the "iodide"
part separate.	Just iodine alone obviously isn't going to hurt
anyone's thyroid!  Thank you again for this information.
	Thanks to all of you who just wrote a note of concern, what a
caring group this is!  Good news to report, I just went through a series
of tests (radioactive iodine whole body scan, thyroglobulin blood
tests, and neck ultrasound), and they all came back negative, so no
more cancer!  Yes!!  Of course I have to go through these tests all
over again next year, but at least for now I don't have to worry.
	Leslie

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Leslie Armstrong-Lea
Radiological Health Sciences (RHS)
Colorado State University
Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1673, USA
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leslie.armstrong-lea@colostate.edu
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