News and Events
Get up to date on what Thry'vors is doing, find out about Thry'vors and thyroid cancer-related events, and check out the latest media coverage of thyroid cancer issues.
Upcoming Thyroid Cancer Information Events
Thry'vors is pleased to announce 3 upcoming events.
Genzyme Canada Inc, in collaboration with Thry'vors, is holding two thyroid cancer patient forums.The first forum will be held in Surrey, BC on June 22, 2009. For more information about this event and to find out how to register click here.
The second forum will be held in Edmonton, AB on June 24, 2009. For more information about this event and to find out how to register click here.
Wellspring, in collaboration with Thry'vors, is holding a Discussion Panel, in Toronto on June 24, 2009. For more information about this event and to find out how to register click here.
Can Thyroid Cancer be Inherited? Patients Forum in Toronto, May 30, 2009
Most thyroid cancer patients have been told by their doctors that the differentiated forms of the disease are not inherited. Yet at Thry'vors we have a fairly high proportion of members who have first-degree family members with papillary or follicular disease including siblings, parent & child, and a few with three generations with the disease.
Recently, several research studies looking at the familial and genetic aspects of thyroid cancer have increased the knowledge of the inheritability of the disease. One study performed at the London Health Sciences Centre has produced a database of patients and their family members with the disease, and has found that there is a greater than chance number of family members with the disease. Dr. Tom McDonald will speak to our group about this study at a Patients Forum in Toronto on May 30, 2009.
As well at the same event, Dr. Shereen Ezzat will address the group about new research in the area of genetic studies. Some exciting and interesting findings have been made in this evolving field.
This public patients' forum will look at these studies and open the discussion to questions from the audience. Please join us. View the details on the flyer (click here) and register at thryvors@sympatico.ca or at 416-487-8267
THRY'VORS PUBLISHED ARTICLES
The Thry'vors Low Iodine Diet Project: The Role of Patient Groups in Enabling Patient Self-Management
Grace Wright (Secretary-Treasurer of Thry'vors) had her article published in the November issue of the CPEN Quarterly (Vol. 2, Issue 4). This article, the first accepted by CPEN from one of its member-groups, discusses the active role that Thry'vors has taken as a patient-operated group that demonstrates the principle of patient self-management. In Thry'vors case, the active role was in the researching, writing, designing, and distributing a definitive version of the Low Iodine Diet. To view the newsletter click here.
The Thry'vors Low Iodine Diet (LID) 2009
Charna Gord (RD, and contributor to Thry'vors News) had an article published in Dietitians of Canada Oncology Network Infoletter (Vol. 3, Issue 3). This newsletter is available to dietitians who work in the field of oncology, including those who advise patients about the Low Iodine Diet in hospital settings and elsewhere. The article provides a comprehensive explanation of the need for the diet, the references supporting it, the steps taken by Thry'vors to devise the diet, a summary of the diet itself. To view the newsletter click here.
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