Bladder Cancer Expert Videos

The Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network is proud to provide these live and recorded video programs by leading experts across the country, to help you understand and manage your bladder cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Please check this page often to see a list of upcoming webinars and treatment talks beginning in September 2024.

Peruse Past Webinars and Expert Videos by Topic Below

These bladder cancer expert videos are recorded from live programs and each one is broken down into shorter chapters, and the transcripts are available as a PDF. Click on the links below to learn more in these bladder cancer expert videos.

• Treatment

  Health Care Topics

  • How Does Precision Medicine Tailor Treatment for Bladder Cancer?
  • Patient Etiquette – How to Manage Your Bladder Cancer Treatment
  • Real-world Applications of Microbiome in Bladder Cancer. What Patients Should Know?
  • Quality Care in a Community Urology Setting
  • Understanding Multidisciplinary and Integrated Care
  • The Multidisciplinary Team Approach to Treating Bladder Cancer

  Staging and Types of Bladder Cancer

  • Staging and Standards of Care for Bladder Cancer
  • Understanding Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma (UTUC)
  • Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma
  • Women and Bladder Cancer
  • Pathology Driving Decisions

  Treatment Topics

  • A Novel Gene Therapy for BCG Unresponsive NMIBC
  • Managing Side Effects of Bladder Cancer Treatments
  • Precision Medicine and Bladder Cancer Update
  • Thinking Through Decision Making | Keeping A Grip On the Emotional Roller Coaster When Bladder Cancer Returns After BCG
  • Real Talk: Pelvic Floor Health
  • Alternates to Radical Cystectomy
  • Bladder Preservation Therapy
  • Neoadjuvant & Adjuvant Chemotherapy

  Bladder Removal Surgery – Radical Cystectomy

  • Understanding the Anatomy of a Cystectomy
  • Selecting Your Best Urinary Diversion- For Women
  • Selecting Your Best Urinary Diversion- For Men
  • Urinary Diversion
  • Radical Cystectomy and Urinary Diversion
  • Enhanced Recovery for Radical Cystectomy 
  • The Care and Keeping of a Neobladder
  • The Care and Keeping of an Ileal Conduit
  • Care and Keeping of an Indiana Pouch
  • Health Related Quality of Life After Radical Cystectomy

  Advanced Bladder Cancer Topics

  • Palliative Care
  • When Cure is Not an Option | Managing Difficult Conversations and Treatments at the End of Life
• Diagnosis
  • What Can They See in My Pee | Unraveling the Mysteries of Urine Cytology
  • Understanding TURBT and Cystoscopy
  • Understanding Bladder Cancer | Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer
  • Understanding Bladder Cancer | Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer
  • What I Wish I Had Known When I Was Diagnosed With Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer
  • Understanding Bladder Cancer | Advanced or Metastatic Bladder Cancer
  • Diagnosing and Treating Bladder Cancer for Adults Under 40
  • Less Common Types of Bladder Cancer (Rare Bladder Cancer)
• Prevention and Recurrence

  Risk Factors

  • E-cigarettes Smoking and Bladder Cancer
  • Bladder Cancer Risk Factors and Prevention
  • Environmental & Occupational Risk Factors

  Surveillance

  • Navigating Bladder Cancer Recurrence, Surveillance, and Beyond (Update)
  • Surveillance and Recurrence of Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer
• Research and Clinical Trials

  Clinical Trial Topics

  • Bench to Bedside: Clinical Trials to Treat Bladder Cancer?
  • Debunking the Myths of Clinical Trials
  • Advanced/Metastatic Bladder Cancer Clinical Trials
  • Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer Clinical Trials
  • Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer Clinical Trials
  • Are Clinical Trials Right for You? | Text Transcript

  Research Topics

  • Participating in Research: Engaging in Clinical Trials
  • Participating in Research: Engaging with “Pharma” as a Patient
  • Participating in Research: Engaging in Grant Review
• Survivorship and Caregivers

  Mental Health

  • The Role of Supportive Care & Mental Health Services
  • Managing the Fear and Anxiety that can Accompany Bladder Cancer 
  • How Can Caregivers Help When Their Loved One Needs Bladder Removal?
  • The Psychosocial Impact of Bladder Removal
  • Bladder Cancer Basics: Tips For Caregivers
  • How to be a Proactive Patient

  Exercise

  • Moving Through Bladder Cancer: How Exercise Can Impact Your Quality of Life

  Bladder health

  • Urinary Tract Infections after Bladder Cancer Treatment

  Special groups

  • Black Families Bladder Cancer Awareness
  • Realities of Women with Bladder Cancer

  Sexuality

  • Guy Talk | Men’s Sexuality After Bladder Cancer
  • Women in Bladder Cancer: Sexuality and Intimacy
  • Physical and Psychosocial Sexual Health after Bladder Cancer

  Veterans

  • 2020 Update on Veterans and Bladder Cancer
  • Veterans and Bladder Cancer | A Conversation about VA hospitals and how they can help
• Nutrition
  • Understanding the Science and Research behind Nutrition Recommendations During Bladder Cancer Treatment
  • Eating Healthy With Bladder Cancer| Text Transcript
  • Eating Healthy Before and After Bladder Cancer Treatment| Text Transcript 
  • Enhancing Nutrition During Bladder Cancer Treatment
  • What you should know about eating healthfully with bladder cancer
  • Enhancing Nutrition During Bladder Cancer Treatment
• Treatment Talks

  Treatment Talks – Feature a leading medical expert and patients who share their experience with the treatment being discussed.

  Objectives of Treatment Talks are to:

  1. Increase patient understanding of existing and new treatments, and in this case, clinical trials for the spectrum of bladder cancer diagnosis;
  2. Showcase patient questions to ask for empowering patient communication with their healthcare team;
  3. Highlight current treatment advances for bladder cancer.

  • Intravesical Therapy
  • Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma
  • Trans-Urethral Resection of the Bladder Tumor (TURBT)

  Urinary Diversion

  • Long Term Management of Urinary Diversions
  • The Care and Keeping of a Neobladder
  • The Care and Keeping of an Ileal Conduit
  • Care and Keeping of an Indiana Pouch
  • Parastomal Hernias

  Other Treatment Options

  • Clinical Trials as Treatment for Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer
  • Clinical Trials as Treatment for Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer
  • Clinical Trials as an Option for Treating Bladder Cancer
  • Treating Options for Advanced and Metastatic Bladder Cancer
  • Chemotherapy
  • Maintenance Therapy
  • Antibody Drug Conjugates
  • Immunotherapy