Butterfly Thyroid Cancer Trust: Patient Contacts

Welcome to the Patient Contact page! Everyone on this page has had Thyroid Cancer and you can learn more from the Key notes in each description.

All are members of the Butterfly Thyroid Cancer Trust and as such have signed the group's guidelines and confidentiality documents.

Our volunteers can provide support and information gained from their own personal experiences. However, they cannot provide medical advice.

Please remember that everyone on the page is giving their time voluntarily and as such we would respectfully request that you subscribe to Butterfly if you would like to contact one of our volunteers. It is usually quicker to contact by telephone.

If you experience difficulty in contacting someone please call the helpline for advice.

If you are interested in supporting others with our disease, please contact us.

Hypoparathyroidism

Medullary Thyroid Cancer MEN 2a

Thyroid Cancer in Childhood

Key

Challenge Scan

Diagnostic scan/blood test carried out 6-8 months after RAI

Hypercalcaemia

Calcium levels in the blood are too high

Hypocalcaemia

Calcium levels in the blood are too low

NCCC

Northern Centre for Cancer Care at Newcastle General Hospital

RAI

Radio Active Iodine

Thyrogen

Drug therapy (RhTSH) given as an injection as an alternative to the patient becoming hypothyroid

Vocal Cord Palsy

Vocal cord(s) paralysed following surgery