Cancerbackup: Thyroid

Skip the page content navigation if you do not require links to content sections within this page.

Page Content Navigation

Skip the main banner if you do not want to read it as the next section.


Page Banner

Want to speak to a specialist cancer nurse? Call free on 0808 800 1234



Secondary navigation

Skip the main content if you do not want to read it as the next section.


UK treatment guidelines - Thyroid cancer


National Standards for Thyroid Cancer Services - 2005

Produced by: Cancer Services Coordinating Group NHS Wales, Welsh Assembly Government

Purpose: Cancer standards define the core aspects of service that should be provided for cancer patients throughout Wales.

Can be obtained from: South East Wales Cancer Network www.wales.nhs.uk/sites3/page.cfm?orgid=362&pid=9408

You need Adobe Acrobat Reader software to view PDF files. You can download it for free from the Adobe website


Guidelines for the management of thyroid cancer in adults - March 2002

Produced by: British Thyroid Association, March 2002

Purpose: To provide evidence-based guidances for all those who are involved in the management of patients with thyroid cancer. Main aims are to improve the long-term overall and disease-free survival of patients with thyroid cancer; to enhance the health-related quality of life of patients with thyroid cancer, and to improve the referral pattern and management of patients with thyroid cancer.

Can be obtained from: Publications Department, Royal College of Physicians of London, 11 St Andrews Place, Regents Park, London NW1 4LE.

Link to website: www.british-thyroid-association.org/guidelines.htm


Content last reviewed: 26 June 2007
Page last modified: 26 June 2007

Get support

Look for other people in the same situation on our What Now? community - read their blogs or talk to them in our chat rooms.

Find out about other ways to get support on the main Macmillan website.

Patient information