The TCA will be attending the European Thyroid Association conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, 3-6 September 2016. Come and see us at stand #15 where we will be displaying our new patient information materials on targeted treatments for advanced thyroid cancer, now translated into Spanish, French...

03 August, 2016

On July 15 the President of the TCA, Soledad Rodriguez Perea, and the representatives of ACTIRA from Argentina, ACTIPERU from Peru and ACOLCAT from Colombia, participated in the 2016 Latam Thyroid Cancer Leader Group Summit. This is the second annual meeting organized by Genzyme Sanofi...

21 July, 2016

In October, representatives of TCA member organisations attended the International Thyroid Congress in Orlando where we had a stand, alongside patient representatives from the USA and Canada and the Thyroid Federation International. The meeting was a great success and we made many new contacts. ...

25 October, 2015

The TCA was awarded a booth in the ‘Patient Advocacy Square’ at the European Cancer Congress in Vienna, 25-29 September. Marika Porrey represented us there....

30 September, 2015

Representatives of several European patient organisations – Vivre sans Thyroïde, AECAT, Thyroid Cancer Support Group Wales, Schildklier Organisatie Nederland, and the British Thyroid Foundation – met in Amsterdam in May at a ‘patient advisory board’ meeting organised and hosted by Genzyme. The participants included Beate...

15 May, 2015

Genzyme Argentina and Brazil invited TCA leaders of patient organisations and some other groups of patients to attend the first LATAM thyroid cancer group leaders’ summit in Buenos Aires city in April 2015. The participants were from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Mexico and patients from Colombia and...

27 April, 2015

In October 2014 the TCA organised a unique patient-led workshop. Ten patient ‘leaders’ and ten clinicians met in Paris to discuss tyrosine kinase inhibitors and what this means for thyroid cancer patients. We were honoured that so many distinguished international clinical experts joined us to...

29 October, 2014

[vc_row row_type="”row”"][vc_column][vc_column_text]In September 2014, some 35 thyroid cancer patients and survivors walked the final 114km of the Camino de Santiago – the Way of St James – arriving in Santiago de Compostela in time for an awareness event in the main square before the opening...

12 September, 2014