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Autoimmune Condition The immune system is the body's defense against infection. Many experts believe that ulcerative colitis is an autoimmune condition (when the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue).The immune system usually fights infection by releasing white blood cells into the blood to destroy the cause of the infection. This results in swelling and redness (swelling) of the body tissues in the infected area. In ulcerative colitis, a leading theory is that the immune system mistakes the "friendly bacteria" in the colon, which aid digestion, as a harmful infection, leading to inflammation of the colon and rectum. Alternatively, some researchers believe that a viral or bacterial infection triggers the immune system, but for some reason it does not "shut off" after the infection has passed and cause inflammation. It has also been suggested that there is no infection involved and that the immune system may malfunction on its own, or that there is an

Thyroid Cancer   Radiation can harm the hereditary qualities of a cell, prompting a change that can cause thyroid disease. There are various wellsprings of radiation that are known to cause thyroid disease that have been all around portrayed throughout the long term. Albeit a great many people with thyroid malignant growth have not been presented to critical radiation, such openness can expand the gamble of thyroid disease in an unsettling way. When in doubt, the more youthful an individual is the point at which they are presented to radiation, and the higher the portion of radiation, the more probable that radiation is to turn into a reason for thyroid disease. It is likewise essential to bring up that patients who were presented to radiation are not bound to have more hazardous thyroid malignant growths than the people who were not presented to radiation. All things considered, a thyroid knob in a presented individual to huge radiation is bound to be disease than a thyroid knob in so