Overview
About the event
Founded and sponsored by ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors�?? Association, this event has origins that date back to the year 2000. The first iteration started out as Thyroid Cancer Awareness Week and just three years later the event was expanded to include the entire month of September to allow for more opportunities for promotion and education.
The purpose behind Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month is to provide information to the public that can help with early detection, promote high standards of care and treatment, as well as calling for support for research that will achieve cures for all forms of thyroid cancer.
As Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month has grown in size and scope over the years, it is now observed in more than 55 countries by different individual people groups and organizations.
This event is different from Thyroid Awareness Month in January, which is about general thyroid health and not specifically related to thyroid cancer.?�?�
