Virtual London Marathon
We have three places for our charity for volunteers to enter this event to raise funds for the Group. It will be held on Sunday 3rd October 2021.If any one wishes to put their name forward to secure a place, please contact us on thyroidsupport@tiscali.co.uk before the end of March
Read MoreNovember meeting
The next meeting will take place on Thursday 11th November 2021 at 7.00pm via zoom.
Read MoreWEBSITE TRAINING SESSION
Helen, Brenda and Cy attended a refresher session on Monday 13th February with Peter Kong to learn more about maintaining our website.
Read MoreNEW LOW IODINE DIET SHEET
The new low iodine diet sheet aims to help patients who are to be treated with radioactive iodine. This can be viewed on line or you can download a copy of the diet sheet from our “Media” section using the “Download - Brochures and Flyers” tab. The diet sheet has advice, along with a number of meal suggestions, to assist with planning and preparing meals during the period leading up to treatment. In order to help with future planning and support for patients there is also a questionnaire available for completion. Again, this can either be downloaded as a hard…
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SEASHORE SUMMER PARTY NIGHT
TCSGW will be hosting their annual Summer Party at the Spinney and Island View Grill and Cafe , Swanbridge on Friday, 15th of July 2016.This year the event is being kindly sponsored by McDonalds Barry, Fordthorne Motor Park, Penarth Road Cardiff and The Deli , High Street , Barry.We appreciate the kind support of these businesses whose generosity enables us to make such a difference. Tickets are designed and supplied by Integrated Graphics, Barry - whose kind support to our group is greatly valued. Why not join us for what promises to be another great evening ? Admission is by…
Read MoreMARGAM 2015
The final event of Awareness Month 2015 involved our participation at the South Wales Cancer Network Patient Conference at Margam. Once again this was a most enjoyable and successful day with TCSGW able to have a stand distributing materials to interested parties in attendance at this event. We were also very fortunate to be invited to give an address to the participants and this was very well received by those present. Dr Moss gave an overview of Thyroid Cancer and also gave details about the iNATT project.This was followed by Cy and Helen sharing their “stories” - how their thyroid…
Read MoreBAETS 2015
The 35th British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons Scientific Meeting was held on the 8th and 9th of October 2015 at the Phyllis Court Club , Henley on Thames. TCSGW were very fortunate to be invited to be present at this event and to share a stand with Butterfly Thyroid Cancer Trust. There was a great deal of interest shown in our work and our support for patients and their families at a challenging time following a thyroid cancer diagnosis. As always, this event was very well supported with a wide variety of eminent speakers from the UK and…
Read MoreFIRST THOUGHTS TO THYROID CANCER PATIENTS
In November TCSGW were invited to attend a meeting sponsored by Eisai at the Royal Society of Medicine, Wimpole Street, London. It was an excellent meeting - very informative, featuring many and varied speakers. Dr Moss gave an excellent address discussing the iNATT project, clinical trials and research updates. Again Dr Moss highlighted the fact that without the work of TCSGW this project would not be taking place. Dr Marcia Brose , Associate Professor of Otorhinolaryngology : Head and Neck Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania USA was the Key Note Speaker and it was a most enjoyable and…
Read MoreCAPTAIN CYMRU – WHAT AN AMAZING ACHIEVEMENT!
The end of November saw 6 representatives form TCSGW en route to Saundersfoot Harbour to present medals to the participants in Captain Cymru’s November Challenge. The weather was absolutely atrocious but that did not dampen the spirits and generous support of Captain Cymru and his amazing fundraisers.Captain Cymru (aka Matthew Evans) had organised the November Challenge which ran from Friday 30th October to Saturday 28th November 2015 The Challenge was to raise funds for our group to enable us to continue our work supporting thyroid cancer patients and supporting research into this rare form of cancer. The Challenge was designed…
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