Here you will find comprehensive information from the National Cancer Institute about the various types of thyroid cancer, including risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options. Information is presented in two formats -- for patients and for health professionals -- and the site indicates when information was last updated. You can also search to find clinical trials involving patients with thyroid cancer. Information is also available in Spanish.
Here you will find information about the specific types of thyroid cancer, their diagnosis, and treatment. For newly diagnosed patients, there is a list of questions that you may want to ask your doctor about the type of thyroid cancer that you have. There's also information about face-to-face and e-mail support groups as well as the ThyCa Person-to-Person Network. The network matches people with thyroid cancer as closely as possible with volunteers who have experience with the same form of cancer. These volunteers answer questions based on their own experiences and offer insights on how they have coped with thyroid cancer. This site also offers links to the "Low Iodine Cookbook," in English and Spanish, which contains hundreds of recipes to get you through the period of time in which you may be required to eat a low iodine diet as a result of your treatment. To read the cookbooks, you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded on the Web free of charge.
