Thyroid Cancer Patient Education and Resources
Diagnosis and Treatment Information from Michigan Medicine
- Thyroid Cancer Information Guide [pdf]
A guide for our patients - contains disease, treatment and resource information. - Preparing for Surgery
Created by the Endocrine Surgery Program - Minimally Invasive Parathyroidectomy [video]
- Minimally Invasive Video-assisted Thyroid Lobectomy [video]
- Post-Operative Instructions
- Introduction to Clinical Trials
Patient Support Services from Michigan Medicine
- Patient Navigators
- Symptoms and Side Effects
- Coping with Emotions
- Thyroid Cancer Support Group provides support by phone or email.
- Living Alone
- Transportation
Articles and research news from Michigan Medicine:
- Radioactive iodine may not benefit thyroid cancer patients, but they still get it
- A new way of uncovering predictive biomarkers may help those with rare cancer
- Worse Survival When Specific Thyroid Cancers Spread to Bone
- Complications from Thyroid Cancer Surgery More Common Than Believed, Study Finds
- When It’s Not Exactly Cancer: Renaming Early Stage Thyroid Tumors
National Resources
- American Thyroid Association (ATA)
- Light of Life Foundation
- ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors Association, Inc.
- American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists
- American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, Patient Education
- Hormone Foundation – (The Endocrine Society)
- American Cancer Society
- Cancer Support Community