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Butterfly’s Patron, Hon President and Founder/Director published in the New England Journal of Medicine: Ablation with Low-Dose Radioiodine and Thyrotropin Alfa in Thyroid Cancer [opens in a new window]

Make a nomination Katherine Crawley was the first patient to be supported by Butterfly and as such became known as the Butterfly Baby (more like Butterfly Babe really, she is sooo beautiful . . .). She was also the first person that I was able to speak with who had Thyroid Cancer following my own […]

Butterfly had a stand at this year’s British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons’ meeting which was held in Liverpool. More than 140 thyroid surgeons attended and all signed up for the Butterfly DVD which is excellent news!!! Kate Farnell gave a presentation on the latest patient survey resultswhich was very well received. She received […]

Butterfly hosted a number of Thyroid Cancer Awareness events in September. Patients, doctors, nurses and nuclear medicine staff have all joined together to support our events. Please enjoy the photographs and helium challenge videos from the events!

Butterfly founder Kate Farnell spoke on Support networks for Patients at a leading Thyroid Cancer Conference at The Royal Marsden in June

The National Cancer Strategy promises “services which patients and the public want” – but what do they want? The Butterfly Thyroid Cancer Trust led an anonymous survey of thyroid cancer patients via their website, membership email, affiliated patient support organisations and cancer clinics. 322 patients responded over the 24 month survey period. We learned that: […]

Watch Kate’s interview about Butterfly’s new patient information film, ‘Thyroid Cancer Uncovered’.

National Cancer Intelligence Network releases latest figures on Thyroid Cancer

Click to read: Thyroid cancer cases mysteriously double in two decades leaving experts baffled (Daily Mirror, December 2012)

‘First UK Thyroid Cancer Awareness Campaign‘ was presented by Kate Farnell at the European Thyroid Association meeting in Pisa in September 2012, and was viewed by 1,000s of doctors!