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The Campaign for Thyroid Transplants was formed in 2011 by Brian O’Connor, with help from Helen, a science expert and Lee, an IT tutor. Brian had a thyroidectomy as a precaution against the reoccurrence of cancer. He suffered chronic health problems afterwards. He believes that there is a lack of understanding by the medical profession and  general public, about the difficulties experienced by people who have to live without a thyroid gland.

There's been some really exciting news recently relating to thyroid transplants. Here's an article from nature about thyroid glands from stem cells, and here's news about a woman who received a voicebox and thyroid transplant. There's more on these stories in our blog and on our research page. 



Our aims are to:

  • encourage medical research into thyroid transplants, which we believe are necessary, possible, and feasible;
  • to educate the public;
  • to provide information and support for people without a thyroid.


After Brian’s thyroidectomy he spoke to other patients, researched online, and found there were many patients reporting the same type of problems. Clearly, although hormone levels might be ‘normal’ on paper, there is a big difference between having a healthy thyroid gland and taking the thyroxin.

What we hope to do is to do is to collect patients’ accounts to persuade specialists of the difficulties faced by thyroidectomy patients.


If patients have to live without such a vital gland as a thyroid are complaining of chronic health problems and lower quality of life, why are there not thyroid transplants?

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