Covid 19 update RAI Treatment.

After very careful consideration some centres have decided to postpone RAI treatment for thyroid cancer patients .
This is not a nationwide decision so please check with your local thyroid cancer care team for advice and information .

Coronavirus.

We are receiving a lot of questions about thyroid cancer and Corona Virus .
Our expert medical team are preparing a statement but for those who have had curative surgery and are without other health problems should not be at any higher risk than the general public.
For other patients if you have concerns please contact your hospital team.

Patient/Doctor meeting 16th May is postponed due to the  Corona Virus.

If you have purchased rail tickets from LNER they are offering full refunds via their website.

World Thyroid Cancer Rome June 2019

BTCT was represented at the World Congress on Thyroid Cancer by Consultant Thyroid Cancer Surgeon Mr Peter Truran FRCS from the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle.
Pete presented our work on the update of RAI rooms across the UK to make the patient experience better.

Pete says :
The conference kicked off with a brilliant session on thyroid cancer guidelines updates. This grounded all the doctors with a discussion about ‘where we are now’ and is a great place to start a conference like this. It is only by understanding current evidence and guidelines that can we hope to build and improve on them. Emphasis was on comparing guidelines across the world in including the BTA and broadly the guidelines are similar across the world with only subtle differences. This is reassuring that multiple experts in different countries have reviewed the evidence and arrived at the same conclusions.

This was followed by a discussion around real-life cases.

In the afternoon I presented the BTCT survey and radioiodine room improvement work to the conference. This was well received and many doctors from around the world admired the work that Butterfly has done in this area in so many UK centres. It has been a real privilege to present this work on behalf of Butterfly Thyroid Cancer Trust.

This study run by the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals aims to determine patients’ quality of life following surgery for either thyroid or parathyroid disease. The survey will take 10 minutes to complete.

The focus of this study is to look in depth at the effect of low blood calcium levels, one of the potential side effects of this type of surgery, has on quality of life. Our research group is working on new ways of reducing this side effect of surgery.