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Living with bladder cancer can feel like holding your breath, never knowing what lies ahead or what the doctor might say at your next visit. We recently shared an article...

When last I left you, I had just finished my cancer surgery and was told that I would need no further treatment at this time. While it is true that...

My family doctor had given me a list of urologists that he recommended. I will leave it up to anyone reading this to decide whether it was blind luck, the...

Editor's note: Anita lives in the UK, so some of the terms used in this article are not necessarily identical to terms used in the US. However, most of the...

This is the portion of my cancer journey that I remember the least about. I'm sure that I arrived at the hospital like any other person going in for a...

One of the hardest parts of living with bladder cancer is dealing with the risk of recurrence. For some, recurrences pop up every few months or years, and the relief...

When people I know are diagnosed with cancer, I'm always amazed by how they react to the news. Within the past year, two women in my life have been given...

I had decided to face my bout with bladder cancer with grace and humor. I got quite a few laughs from friends, my doctors and nurses. Many people commented on...

Before my diagnosis and in the weeks after, my dog – an eight-year-old pug named Tang Tang – stuck pretty closely to my side. I didn't think anything of it...

Treatments for bladder cancer can look so different from treatments for other cancers that even close friends and family might not realize their impact. Side effects are usually invisible, like...

When I first heard the term “second cancer” about a year ago, it sounded like a bad joke. Unfortunately, it's something very real. Second cancer, I learned, is not the...

Despite how common it is, many people do not know much about bladder cancer! In addition to supporting those who live with bladder cancer, our aim at BladderCancer.net is to...

I suppose that the best place to start this would be the beginning. Towards the end of 2005 (or maybe it was just the beginning of 2006), I noticed blood...

Searching for a clinical trial for bladder cancer can feel stressful and overwhelming, but connecting to clinical trials is now easier than ever. Whether it’s your first time looking or...

When I noticed blood in my urine, my doctors sent me to get an ultrasound to rule out anything serious. Instead, what they found was a 4-cm mass on the...

I want to talk about “Death.” It is one of those subjects that we don’t often think about until it’s too late or until we are diagnosed with a life-limiting...

Stomas are surgically created openings made into a hollow organ, like the bladder, to connect to the outside of the body. A variety of factors can lead to the need...

Like many in my generation, I have “real” friends – people whom I've met in person -- and “Facebook” friends – people with whom I've only spoken online. At the...

The story in March that a Kaiser Permanente hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area used a telemedicine doctor to inform a patient and his granddaughter that there was nothing...

In this series, we discuss causes of anxiety for those facing physical health conditions. Phrases in quotes are the words of our community members across various conditions on what it’s...