[Image by Jung Suk Sim with creative commons license.] Most doctors in North America know of two ways to deal with thyroid nodules. 1) watch them grow and wait, doing nothing, and 2) thyroidectomy, removing part or all of the thyroid gland that is affected. However, in countries beyond North America, mainly Korea and Italy, … Continue reading Non-surgical therapies for thyroid nodules and cysts
On February 11, 2020, Thyroid Patients Canada officially became a nonprofit corporation. It's the first step toward becoming an official registered charity. Three of us patient peer-leaders put together the paperwork -- Tania, Mona and Alexa. There's a team of about 12-16 members on our Advisory Group, but like any organization, not everyone's capable of … Continue reading Thyroid Patients Canada becomes nonprofit corporation
At the end of January 2020, Alberta Precision Laboratories established a new policy of cancelling patient-pay Reverse T3 (RT3) tests on standard laboratory test orders. One memo in circulation explains the justifications based on RT3 silence in the 2012 and 2014 thyroid clinical guidelines. The memo was issued by Dr. Hossein Sadrzadeh, Section Chief, Clinical … Continue reading Think twice about cancelling patient-pay Reverse T3 tests
Valentine's day is a good day to attempt to promote kindness and tolerance toward people suffering from a rather invisible health condition. Thyroid disease. What better day than today to identify and attempt to remove a medical attitude that is a barrier to effective thyroid therapy ... "biochemical bigotry"? Most doctors take for granted that … Continue reading Biochemical bigotry: Enforcing normalized thyroid lab results
For many decades, scientists have been studying the effect of thyroid hormones in promoting cancer proliferation. Confusion and contradictions often arise in "cancer & thyroid" research reviews because the relationship between cancer and thyroid hormones is very complex. For example, a recent review of science since the 1940s attempted to reclassify research findings under poorly … Continue reading Cancer scientists point finger at T4 & RT3 hormones
