Working groups are small groups of ETA members designed to address a specific topic with specific objectives and defined time base. The current groups are:

EUGOGO www.eugogo.eu

European Group on Graves' Ophthalmopathy

Groupleader: Prof. W.M. Wiersinga

ICCIDD

www.iccidd.org/

International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders

European Thyroid Association – Cancer Research Network (ETA-CRN) Forum

Group Leader:
Ulla Feldt-Rasmussen, Denmark

Secretary:
Barbara Jarzab, Poland

Treasurer: Georg Brabant, UK

Other members:
Leonidas Duntas, Greece
Clara Alvarez, Spain
Francesca Carlomagno, Italy
Lars Bastholt, Denmark
Martin Schlumberger, France



MISSION:
European Thyroid Association – Cancer Research Network (ETA-CRN) is devoted to those ETA members whose primary focus is molecular biology of thyroid cancer. This platform is also addressed to clinicians and researchers who wish to initiate a cooperation or just exchange information in the field of management of thyroid cancer.

INTEREST:
This year ETA-CRN gives a special focus on preparation of European Comment on the Medullary Thyroid Cancer Management Guidelines of the American Thyroid Association.


European comment on the Medullary Thyroid Cancer Management Guidelines of the American Thyroid Association
Recently, the American Thyroid Association First Comprehensive Guidelines for Managing Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma have been published in The Thyroid journal. European Thyroid Association decided to endorse this excellent achievement. As the Guidelines raised significant interest and some comments and remarks related to European practice seem necessary, we would like to devote this year ETA-CRN session in Lisbon, Saturday, September 5th, 2009 exclusively to presentation and discussion of the most important statements.

During the meeting an overview of the ATA Guidelines by Richard Kloos, the President of the ATA Taskforce will be given, and thereafter the discussion of the European comments to the ATA MTC management guidelines is planned. This discussion will shape the final ETA statement to be prepared until the end of September.

On this occasion the online debate was organized to enable ETA Members interested with the theme to comment selected topics. You are welcome to visit the forum at www.eta-crn.org and see the current stage of discussion.

We would like to invite all ETA Members interested in the issue of medullary thyroid cancer management to participate in this year 9th ETA-CRN Meeting in Lisbon. We hope you shall find the programme of the meeting interesting.

See you in Lisbon!

Ulla Feldt-Rasmussen
President of ETA-CRN

Barbara Jarzab
Secretary of ETA-CRN

 

ETA-CRN Meeting Programme




Laboratory standardisation
Groupleader: Alec Ross (Chair), Murat Erdogan, Ulla Feldt-Rasmussen


Genetics of euthyroid goitre
Groupleader: Ralf Paschke (Chair), Henri Völzke, Peter Laurberg, Laszlo Hegedüs


The TSH Receptor Mutation Database, which provides an overview of constitutively activating TSH receptor germline mutations, is now available at http://innere.uniklinikum-leipzig.de/tsh/.

For more details, e-mail pasr@server3.medizin.uni-leipzig.de


Two other thyroid research sites
Resistance to Thyroid Hormone mutation registry gopher://snakeoil.bsd.uchicago.edu%A670/11rthregistry/11rthregistry
NB Please ensure your browser is configured for Gopher sites before following this link

Thyroid receptor website