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Welcome to the BTF

Thyroid disorders affect one in 20 people in the UK.
Could you be one of them?

The British Thyroid Foundation is a charity dedicated to supporting people with thyroid disorders and helping their families and people around them to understand the condition.

Since setting up in 1991 we have worked with medical professionals to ensure that the information we provide is reliable and evidence-based.

Our volunteers have first-hand knowledge of thyroid disease, enabling them to help you, whether by phone or at meetings.

The British Thyroid Foundation is for anyone who wants to know the facts about thyroid disease.

Whatever your type of thyroid disorder we will provide you with information and support.
 
BTF Awards

awards_splitEach year we invite applications for two awards: the British Thyroid Foundation Research Award and the Evelyn Ashley Smith Award for nurses.

We are keen to support the crucial role that researchers and nurses fulfill in providing the best treatment for people with thyroid disorders.

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Research Award
 
Sense About Science

The BTF supports the Sense about Science 'Ask for Evidence' campaign which helps people query the status of science and research reported in the media. Their website has hints and tips on how to ask for evidence and stories of people from school kids to the Chair of a Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee who have hunted for the evidence behind claims. There has been a flurry of evidence hunting activity since publication of There goes the science bit ...
 

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BTF get involved with Harrogate Flower Show and Gardening Scotland
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Thank you

BTF wishes to thank the Society for Endocrinology for awarding a £2500 grant to BTF for the Children's Project. BTF was also recently awarded a £1000 grant from Bettys & Taylors of Harrogate for our Children's Project. For info about what we're doing click here

 

Get fit and raise money for the BTF. Sign up for the 2012 Asics London run on July 8th
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Online forum on thyroid disorders

BTF has been invited to take part in an NHS Choices/Talk Health online clinic about thyroid disorders from 25-31 January, in partnership with Sense about Science. A team of clinical experts will answer general questions about thyroid disorders from members of the public during that week, after which the information will be archived on the NHS Choices website. For more information see here

 

New BTF Patron

The British Thyroid Foundation are delighted to announce our newest patron, Lord Borwick of Hawkshead
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Medullary Thyroid Cancer Study

Joel Smith of the University of Birmingham is starting a study into Medullary Thyroid Cancer
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Patient Survey

The Butterfly Thyroid Cancer Trust are conducting a new patient survey on the 'burden of disease' relating to thyroid cancer. If you would like to take part please visit the Butterfly Thyroid Cancer Trust survey page

 

FAQ

Radiation and Thyroid Cancer
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New Self Testing Kit Launched

A new self-testing product called ThyroScreenTM has just been launched in the UK by Personal Diagnostics Ltd. It is a self-testing kit to detect an under-active thyroid. The BTF has collaborated with Personal Diagnostics in providing patient information about hypothyroidism.
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Support the BTF by getting a BTF key ring
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Associated with:

British Thyroid Association - medical professionals encouraging the highest standards in patient care and research.

British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons - the representative body of British Surgeons who have a specialist interest in surgery of the endocrine glands (thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal)