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Thyroid staff

We are an interdisciplinary group of health care professionals formed in 2005. Our group was founded out of our interest in offering comprehensive and suitable care to patients suffering from thyroid tumors. At the same time, we aim to unify management criteria in accordance with the established international policies and standards, developing national experience and consensus on the management, monitoring and control of each individual case.

Our ultimate goal is to seek a greater and better quality survival rate of patients with thyroid tumors by researching and generating ideas to improve medical and economic resources for the health care community. We are designing and planning individualized treatments by managing the resources in the best way possible, providing the maximum benefit for our patients.

Our lines of clinical research makes us unique. We are responsible for the changes being implemented to patient treatment and follow-up, and we are always seeking to reduce the risks of relapse and mortality, providing the patients and their families with safety, comprehensive management, and control.

We put our professional experience and human warmth at the service of the patients and their families in every contact we have with them, always providing them with truthful reports about every step of the healing process. Moreover, as a group, we are always open to address their concerns in the best possible way.

Staff’s objective

To provide Antioquia’s, Colombia’s and our neighboring countries’ communities the option to be treated by an interdisciplinary and humane group suitable for the comprehensive treatment and management of the thyroid gland tumor pathology.

General objective:

To establish a service that is accessible to all local and international institutions and physicians involved in the treatment of this pathology, unifying criteria and achieving a better survival rate of the patients.

Specific objectives:

To optimize the treatment resources.
To unify the medical and specialized surgical treatment criteria.
To effectively monitor patients in accordance with the risk factors.
To detect relapses in a timely manner.
To increase the cost-effectiveness of the control measures.
To reduce the morbidity and mortality rate.

Services offered:

Consultation and specialized medical surgical follow-up by the General Surgery, Head and neck surgery, Nuclear Medicine, Endocrinology, and Radiology departments.
Surgery with the highest standards of quality.
Therapy with radioactive iodine and recombinant human thyroid stimulating hormone (rhTSH) by Nuclear Medicine.
State-of-the-art medical imaging: cervical ultrasonography, ultrasound-guided biopsies, computed tomography, magnetic resonance MRI, imaging techniques, positron emission tomography (PET-CT).

Our interdisciplinary thyroid staff is formed by:

Head and neck surgeons, endocrinologists, adult and pediatric clinical endocrinologists, general surgeons, nuclear medicine physicians, pathologists, medical epidemiologists, nuclear physicists.

Support Services

We have a large portfolio of units and departments, including Clínica Las Américas, Las Américas Cancer Institute, Las Américas Medical Laboratory, Las Américas Pathology and its specialized clinic laboratory services, imaging (Rx, CT scan, ultrasonography, MRI, PET-CT), hospitalization, emergency, intensive care unit, pain clinic, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, rehabilitation and other medical surgical services.

We perform the following activities:

Medical consultations
Surgeries
Weekly interdisciplinary medical board
Academic sessions
Research work
Educational sessions with the group of patients

Support group for thyroid cancer patients

Fundación Las Américas jointly with the thyroid staff founded a support group for people diagnosed with thyroid cancer and their families in 2014. Click here to see the group's objectives, special programs, and schedule of meetings.

If you want to be a part of the Support group for thyroid cancer patients, fill out the following form with your contact information.