There are treatment options available for Graves disease, including antithyroid medications or surgery.

• A. There are treatment options available, including antithyroid medications or surgery.
• B. Graves disease always requires lifelong replacement therapy.
• C. The disease cannot be treated.
• D. Only radioactive iodine cures Graves disease.

Answer: (A)

Graves disease can be managed with more than one strategy, not a single treatment. Antithyroid drugs like methimazole or propylthiouracil reduce thyroid hormone production and can control hyperthyroidism or even lead to remission in some patients. They’re often used as initial therapy, when preparing for other treatments, or in patients who want to avoid definitive therapies. Thyroidectomy, removing part or all of the thyroid, is another option in selected cases and can cure hyperthyroidism, though it carries surgical risks and generally leads to lifelong thyroid hormone replacement afterward. Radioactive iodine therapy is a common alternative that ablates thyroid tissue, frequently resulting in hypothyroidism that also requires replacement. Because multiple valid paths exist, the statement that treatment options are available, including antithyroid medications or surgery, is accurate. The other ideas—that lifelong replacement is always required, that the disease cannot be treated, or that only radioactive iodine cures Graves—are not correct.