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Bladder Cancer Travel Tips

Tips for Summer After Radical Cystectomy: Golfing, featuring a quote from Tony P. on managing a urostomy bag while golfing. Includes the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network logo and bladder cancer travel tips.
A woman celebrates at sunset next to the text Tips for Summer After Radical Cystectomy | Hiking, a quote about managing an ostomy bag while hiking, the BCAN logo, and helpful bladder cancer travel tips.
View from an airplane wing over clouds with text: Tips for Summer After Radical Cystectomy. If I’m on a plane I wear a leg bag... -Faith M., ileal conduit since 2018. Includes Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network logo for bladder cancer travel tips.
An older man stretches outdoors over text titled Tips for Summer After Radical Cystectomy, featuring bladder cancer travel tips from Don B. about clothing adjustments for a medical pouch, with the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network logo below.
A laptop displaying Tips for Traveling with a Urinary Diversion from the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network sits on an orange suitcase surrounded by travel accessories including a camera, headphones, sunglasses, and a passport.

Traveling is good for the soul. By traveling, we make friends and have new experiences. Some of us travel to connect with family and friends, to visit places from our past, and to relive memories. And some of us travel for work! Traveling can be stressful. Trains, planes, or automobiles can mean cramped seating, traffic delays, standing in lines, heavy luggage, and a general invasion of personal privacy. Traveling forces us to temporarily disconnect from our normal routine, making us very much aware of the people and comforts in our home environments.

Travel for individuals with urinary diversions and their loved ones can present additional challenges beyond deciding which shirt to pack. The Activities of Daily Living subcommittee of the BCAN Survivorship Working Group created this list of bladder cancer travel tips to take the turbulence out of traveling with a diversion. We hope this list increases your chances of smooth sailing on your next adventure. Bon voyage!

Special thanks to Committee members: Gail Butler; Mary Dunn, NP; Heather Goltz; Debbie Hensley; Nancy Lindsey; Robert Lipman; Nihal Mohammed.

Click below to download the full travel tips for the Neobladder and Indiana Pouch Diversions!

Informational flyer from the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network titled Tips for Traveling with a Neobladder or Indiana Pouch, offering bladder cancer travel tips for packing medical supplies and hygiene products for air travel.

Click below to download the full travel tips for the Ileal Conduit Diversion!

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