First Annual Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ New England Workshop
WORKSHOP DETAILS
Event: Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ New England Workshop 2001
The ONLY workshop in New England for survivors of this rare cancer.
Name: New England Workshop for Thyroid Cancer Survivors
Date: 19 May 2001
Place: O’Keefe Auditorium, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Cost: FREE
Organized by: ThyCa Support Groups of New England,
Affiliated with ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association, Inc.
Web site: http:// www.thyca.org
Media Contacts: Ric Blake (Rblake@thyca.org)
Day: 978-689-6656
Evening: 603-434-4932
or
Shannon Parrish : 617-868-2630
Address: ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association, Inc.
P.O. Box 1545, New York, NY 10159-1545
Toll Free Survivors’ Information Number: 877-588-7904
Web site: http://www.thyca.org
E-Mail: thyca@thyca.org
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Event: Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ New England Workshop 2001
The ONLY workshop in New England for survivors of this rare cancer.
Date: 19 May 2001
Place: O’Keefe Auditorium, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Cost: FREE
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
On May 19, thyroid cancer survivors and their families are invited to attend a one-day workshop at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Sponsored by ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association, Inc, and the American Cancer Society, New England Division, the workshop is
FREE and open to thyroid cancer survivors and their families.
The presenters in the morning are Gregory Randolph, M.D., FACE, Director of General Otolaryngology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
and Arturo Rolla, M.D., an endocrinologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and a founding member of ThyCa’s Medical
Advisory Council.
The afternoon program includes a Survivors’ Panel and a presentation by the New England Coalition for Cancer Survivorship called How To Support
a Cancer Survivor. Throughout the day, portraits by photographer Gretje Ferguson will be on exhibit. This show is part of Ms. Ferguson’s larger
exhibit called Confronting Cancer: Images of Strength and Hope, which is currently touring New England.
Workshop details are available on ThyCa’s web site at <www.thyca.org>, by mail at ThyCa:Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association, Inc., P.O. Box
1545, New York, NY 10159-1545 and through the ThyCa Survivors’ Toll-Free Telephone Service (877-588-7904). Queries may also be sent by
e-mail to Boston_MA@thyca.org.
RE: First Annual Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ New England Workshop
Date: 8 April 2001
Release Immediately
Released by: ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association, Inc.
Web site: http:// www.thyca.org
Media Contact: Ric Blake: (Rblake@thyca.org)
Address: ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association, Inc.
P.O. Box 1545, New York, NY 10159-1545
Toll-Free Survivors’ Information Number: 877-588-7904
WORKSHOP DETAILS
Event: Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ New England Workshop 2001
The ONLY workshop in New England for survivors of this rare cancer.
Name: New England Workshop for Thyroid Cancer Survivors
Date: 19 May 2001
Place: O’Keefe Auditorium, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Cost: FREE
Organized by: ThyCa Support Groups of New England,
Affiliated with ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association, Inc.
Web site: http:// www.thyca.org
Media Contacts: Ric Blake (Rblake@thyca.org)
Day: 978-689-6656
Evening: 603-434-4932
or
Shannon Parrish : 617-868-2630
Address: ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association, Inc.
P.O. Box 1545, New York, NY 10159-1545
Toll Free Survivors’ Information Number: 877-588-7904
Web site: http://www.thyca.org
E-Mail: thyca@thyca.org
ThyCa NEWS RELEASE ThyCa NEWS RELEASE ThyCa NEWS RELEASE
______________________________________________________________________________
Event: Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ New England Workshop 2001
The ONLY workshop in New England for survivors of this rare cancer.
Date: 19 May 2001
Place: O’Keefe Auditorium, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Cost: FREE
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
On May 19, thyroid cancer survivors and their families are invited to attend a one-day workshop at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Sponsored by ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association, Inc, and the American Cancer Society, New England Division, the workshop is
FREE and open to thyroid cancer survivors and their families.
The presenters in the morning are Gregory Randolph, M.D., FACE, Director of General Otolaryngology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Arturo Rolla, M.D., an endocrinologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and a founding member of ThyCa’s Medical Advisory Council.
The afternoon program includes a Survivors’ Panel and a presentation by the New England Coalition for Cancer Survivorship called How To Support a Cancer Survivor. Throughout the day, portraits by photographer Gretje Ferguson will be on exhibit. This show is part of Ms. Ferguson’s larger exhibit called Confronting Cancer: Images of Strength and Hope, which is currently touring New England.
Workshop details are available on ThyCa’s web site at <www.thyca.org>, by mail at ThyCa:Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association, Inc., P.O. Box 1545, New York, NY 10159-1545 and through the ThyCa Survivors’ Toll-Free Telephone Service (877-588-7904). Queries may also be sent by e-mail to Boston_MA@thyca.org.
Michigan’s first support group for thyroid cancer survivors has begun meeting in Plymouth on the fourth Tuesday of each month. The next meeting
will be April 24. Organized by ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association, Inc., ThyCa SE Michigan is free and open to all thyroid cancer
survivors and their families. ThyCa SE Michigan meets from 7:30 – 8:45 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday of each month in the Gold Room at the
Plymouth Public Library, 223 South Main Street, Plymouth, MI. For information about ThyCa SE Michigan, call M. Weckerle at 734-397-2801 or
write se_MI@thyca.org.
Support groups for thyroid cancer survivors are organized across the United States and Canada by ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association,
Inc. ThyCa is a nonprofit, volunteer organization providing services and resources to thyroid cancer survivors and their families at no charge. For
more information call toll-free 877-588-7904 or write visit the web site at www.thyca.org.
ThyCa.com, the official web site of ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association, Inc., has received the StudyWeb Academic Excellence Award
by reviewers at StudyWeb. In announcing the featured site designation, StudyWeb described thyca.org as “one of the best educational resources
on the Web.”
ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association, Inc. is a nonprofit volunteer organization providing services and resources to thyroid cancer survivors
and their families. Organized following the world’s first annual conference for thyroid cancer survivors held in Massachusetts in October 1998, a national steering committee incorporated the association in March 1999.
StudyWeb is one of the Internet’s premier sites for educational resources for students and teachers. Since 1996, StudyWeb’s reviewers search the Internet and select what they judge as the finest sites to include in its listing of educational links. Each site in StudyWeb includes a detailed review, describing the site’s editorial and visual merits. StudyWeb’s address is http://www.studyweb.com.
ThyCa’s web site was designed by its web manager, Betty Solbjor of Waltham, MA, who is a thyca survivor and founding member of the ThyCa
Board of Directors. She is also a founding member of ThyCa Merrimack Valley, in Lawrence, MA, which was the first support group established for
thyca survivors in the world.
ThyCa’s web site includes a description of types of thyroid cancer and its treatment, news releases, history of the association, listing of local
support groups in the U.S. and Canada, information about future national and regional conferences plus links to other resources. The site also includes an electronic membership application. The address for ThyCa’s web site is http://www.thyca.org.