A bladder cancer diagnosis can be a life-changing event. Cancer survivorship begins at diagnosis and includes all of the psychological, emotional, social, health, and financial issues cancer patients cope with as they learn to live with their cancer. Survivorship care focuses on improving survivors’ quality of life. This includes dealing
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Survivor to Survivor
While bladder cancer is the 7th most common type of cancer, it can feel lonely during the bladder cancer journey. The Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network’s Survivor 2 Survivor program offers phone support for bladder cancer patients who have questions about their bladder cancer journeys. Many bladder cancer patients ask about
Dr. Gary Steinberg: Why I Walk to End Bladder Cancer
Gary D. Steinberg, MD, is a leading national bladder cancer expert and is also the Ambassador for the New York City Walk to End Bladder Cancer that will take place on April 25, 2020. Why does Dr. Steinberg walk to end bladder cancer? “As a bladder cancer physician I have
Announcing BCAN’s Participating in Research Webinar Series
BCAN’s Participating in Research Series During their 15th Anniversary Year, BCAN is hosting a special webinar series “Participating in Research”. In this series, learn more about how you, as a patient, can get involved in research, with everything from providing feedback on grants to participating in a research team for
Kimberly’s Story About Her Dad
My father was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2012, just days after his 58th birthday. He lost his mother to the disease years before I was born. Right after his diagnosis, I remember telling myself, “There have been so many strides in cancer treatments over the past thirty years. Surely
BCAN – FDA Workshop: August 8, 2019. 12-4PM EDT
BCAN – FDA workshop agenda FINAL Follow the Workshop: @BladderCancerUS, @FDAOncology, #pCRMIBC2019
Did your doctors talk to you about the potential impact on your sexuality with the treatments that were given to you are offered to you?
Lee: My husband had prostate cancer, and that is one of the reasons why I got fast tracked so quickly through the urologist. My husband had a personal relationship with the doctor and used to talk to us about sexuality. Here I was now at a stage where I needed