September, 2002
For more information:
ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors' Association, Inc.
www.thyca.org
E-mail: thyca@thyca.org
Toll-Free Phone: 1-877-588-7904
The Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ 5th International Conference will
take place at the Los Angeles Athletic Club, 431 West 7th
Street, Los Angeles, California.
Sponsored by the national nonprofit organization ThyCa: Thyroid
Cancer Survivors’ Association, Inc. www.thyca.org, this
event offers more than 60 sessions for people newly diagnosed with thyroid cancer, survivors of many years, and their family members.
Walk-in registration begins each morning at 8 a.m. Sessions go
all day until 5:30 p.m. Friday, 5:15 p.m. Saturday, and 3:30
p.m. Sunday. The conference fee is $45, with discounts for added
family members and guests, as well as ThyCa members.
Scholarships are available to anyone unable to afford the fee.
The program and registration materials are available on the
ThyCa web site at www.thyca.org.
The conference sessions are informal and interactive, to give
participants the opportunity to share experiences and
suggestions on self-care and coping with the emotional and
practical impacts of thyroid cancer and to ask leading questions
of leading thyroid cancer experts.
Some of the more than 60 presentations and workshops:
Friday, October 11
- Ask a Doctor about Papillary and Follicular Thyroid Cancer.
Nicholas Sarlis, M.D., Ph.D., Endocrinologist, National
Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
- Survivor’s Success
Story. Karen Smyers, World Champion Triathlete and Thyroid
Cancer Survivor, Massachusetts.
- I-123 Imaging: Withdrawal and
Thyrogen Scanning. Susan Mandel, M.D., Endocrinologist,
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
- Advanced Thyroid Cancer Monitoring and Treatment.
Bryan Haugen, M.D., Endocrinologist, University of Colorado
Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado.
- Thyroid Cancer:
Dealing with Feelings. Stephanie Anderson-Ladd, M.A., MFT, ThyCa
Volunteer, California.
- Health Insurance: Ask an Attorney about
Portability, Access, and Claims Denial. Mark Hiepler, Esq.,
Attorney, Insurance Issues, Hiepler & Hiepler, Oxnard,
California.
- Treatment of Thyroid Cancer: A Nuclear Medicine
View. Donald Margouleff, M.D., Chief of Nuclear Medicine, North
Shore University Hospital,
Manhasset, New York
- Update on the Low-Iodine Diet. Stephanie Lee, M.D.,
Endocrinologist, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
- Survivors’ Roundtable: Rapport-Building Between Doctors and
Patients.
- Ask an Endocrinologist: Treatment Decisionmaking,
When to Get a Second Opinion. Inder Chopra, M.D.,
Endocrinologist, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles,
California. ..
Saturday, October 12
- If You’re New to Thyroid Cancer. Matthew Ringel, M.D.,
Endocrinologist, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC.
- Ask a Doctor: Medullary Thyroid Cancer. Douglas Evans, M.D.,
Surgeon, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center,
Houston, Texas.
- Cancer Research Frontiers: Anti-Angiogenesis
and Immunotherapy. H. Richard Alexander, M.D., Surgeon,
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, Maryland.
- Caregivers’ Roundtable. Jon Guljord,
Florida, and Mark Irion, Pennsylvania, ThyCa Volunteers. -Legal
Issues: Employment, Workplace, Disability. Marvin Krakow, Esq.,
Attorney, Employment Issues, Los Angeles, California.
- Treating
Neck Spread of Thyroid Cancer. Gary Clayman, M.D., Surgeon,
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
- When a Child or Adolescent Has Thyroid Cancer. Gary Francis,
M.D., Endocrinologist, Uniformed Services University of the
Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, and Walter Reed Medical
Center, Washington, D.C.
- Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer: Ask a
Doctor. Matthew Ringel, M.D., Endocrinologist, Washington
Hospital Center, Washington, D.C.
- Medullary Thyroid Cancer:
Research Update. Robert Gagel, M.D., Endocrinologist, University
of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
- Coping
with Thyroid Cancer and Other Medical Issues at the Same Time—
Fibromyalgia, Other Cancers, Others. Kathleen Rand, Nevada, and
Mary Rose Weckerle, Michigan, ThyCa Volunteers.
- Scan Negative,
TG Positive, EBR Therapy. Richard Kloos, M.D., Endocrinologist,
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
- Ask a Doctor: Using
Thyrogen. Michael McDermott, M.D., Endocrinologist, University
of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, and Paul
Gelep, Genzyme Therapeutics, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Pregnancy, Maternity Care, Parenting, and Thyroid Cancer. Rena
Sellin, M.D., Endocrinologist, University of Texas M.D. Anderson
Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
- Local Support Groups: Workshop
for Current and Prospective Facilitators. Leah Guljord, ThyCa
Support Group Coordinator, Florida.
- Update on PET Scans and
Other Imaging Techniques. R. Michael Tuttle, M.D.,
Endocrinologist, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New
York, New York.
- Receiving and Giving Support Through ThyCa’s
E-mail Support Groups and AOL Live Chat. Elizabeth Irion,
Co-Facilitator, AOL Thyroid Cancer Mutual Support Group,
Pennsylvania; Marilyn Sherman, Facilitator, ThyCa San Diego
County Support Group, California.
- Long-Term Survivors’
Roundtable: Living with Thyroid Cancer Over the Years
- Talk
About It! Family Communications, Intergenerational Issues:
Roundtable
Sunday, October 13
- Ask a Doctor about Thyroid Cancer Care. Peter Singer, M.D.,
Endocrinologist, USC Ambulatory Care Health Center, Los Angeles,
California; President-Elect, American Thyroid Association.
- Radiation Safety Tips and Suggestions at Home: Survivors’
Roundtable. Moderator: Bryan Benesch, ThyCa Volunteer, Maryland.
- Humor and Health. Megan Stendebach, ThyCa Volunteer, Texas.
- Ask a Doctor: Management of Papillary and Follicular Thyroid
Cancer over the Lifetime. Jerome Hershman, M.D.,
Endocrinologist, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles,
California.
- Treating Medullary Thyroid Cancer. Pam Schultz,
Ph.D., R.N., Program Director for Endocrinology, University of
Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
- Issues and
Needs in Thyroid Cancer Research. Gregory Brent, M.D.,
Endocrinologist, UCLA School of Medicine and VA Greater Los
Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California.
- Doctor/Patient Communication: Roundtable. Peggy Melton, ThyCa
Volunteer, Texas.
- Fun with Cooking and Tasty Snacks on the
Low-Iodine Diet. Leah Guljord, ThyCa Volunteer and Editor,
ThyCa Low-Iodine Cookbook, Florida.
For more information:
ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors' Association, Inc.
www.thyca.org
E-mail: thyca@thyca.org
Toll-Free Phone: 1-877-588-7904
