Tygerberg Hospital Breast and Endocrine Surgery

27/01/2026

What a super successful weekend with Project Flamingo at Tygerberg Hospital!! 🤍

21/01/2026

🦋 January is ! A crucial time to raise awareness and promote early detection of disorders. Check out the new Thyroid Awareness Month Media Toolkit filled with resources designed to support your communications and outreach throughout the month. Educate yourself, your family, your friends, and others!

https://ow.ly/UHCX50Y0clB

15/01/2026

Sharing for anyone who may be interested !

ThyCa is hosting a free virtual webinar: What's New in Advanced Thyroid Cancer Treatment.✨🔬🦋

Join us Friday, January 23rd at 12:O0pm ET! 🗓️

Register here: https://thanc.me/january2026

31/12/2025

Permanent voice changes after surgery for are rare—occurring in less than 1% of cases when the procedure is done by an experienced surgeon. When voice changes do occur, they’re usually related to the superior or recurrent laryngeal nerves, which run close to the thyroid. Graves' Disease and Thyroid Foundation American Thyroid Association American Association of Clinical Endocrinology

04/12/2025

In Graves' disease, the thyroid gland is prompted to produce too much of its normal hormones, resulting in a rapid heartbeat, shaking, heightened anxiety, sleeplessness, exhaustion, weight loss, hot flashes, and an enlarged thyroid gland, known as a goiter.
Graves' Disease and Thyroid Foundation American Thyroid Association American Association of Clinical Endocrinology

11/11/2025

Well done TBH Project Flamingo Team 🦩🦩🦩🔥

27/10/2025

28/09/2025

Are you a patient with ?

📅Saturday 15 November, 10:00 - 13:00 CET

Join chairs Andrea Giustina (Italy), Tanja Richter (Germany), Liesbeth Winter (The Netherlands) and Teodor Dumitrescu (Romania).

Speakers include Heide Siggelkow (Germany), Natalie Grosset (France), Jens Bollerslev (Norway) and Liz Glenister (UK).

Translations into French, German and Romanian.

Clinicians are also welcome - please invite your patients!

Register for free! 👇
https://ow.ly/IIMu50WBpkx

26/09/2025

1 week to go!

Patients with adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC), join us for this webinar!

With simultaneous translations into French, German and Italian.

📅4 October, 10:00-13:00 CEST

Register now for free
👉https://ow.ly/YYYl50W6CAv

09/09/2025

Wonderful: Teamwork! 💛💛

04/09/2025

Doctors at Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town have performed South Africa’s first robotic living donor nephrectomy, removing a healthy kidney from a mother for transplantation into her daughter. The procedure used a da Vinci Xi robotic platform

30/08/2025

Patients with hypoparathyroidism - this is for you!

📅Saturday 15 November, 10:00 - 13:00 CET

With chairs Andrea Giustina (Italy), Tanja Richter (Germany), Liesbeth Winter (The Netherlands) and Teodor Dumitrescu (Romania).

Speakers include Heide Siggelkow (Germany), Natalie Grosset (France), Jens Bollerslev (Norway) and Liz Glenister (UK).

Translations into French, German and Romanian.

Clinicians are welcome - please invite your patients!

Register for free! 👇
https://ow.ly/IIMu50WBpkx