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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...

Two years ago, I was diagnosed with Bladder Cancer. While it has been a rollercoaster on top of my Lung Cancer, it has been manageable. I initially had tumors on the wall...

Occasionally, there is some confusion within the bladder cancer community between two common treatments: Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) and Mitomycin. They are both intravesical therapies, meaning that they are treatments that...

We all feel "down" from time to time, but how do you know when it is getting a bit more serious than just 'being low'? Bladder cancer is one of...

When my first husband had metastatic bladder cancer, our needs for help and support shifted frequently. One week, pain management would be our primary challenge. The next week it would...

When I got my bladder cancer diagnosis I had no personal experience with cancer and I had just turned 29. Because I was relatively young, and because none of my...

May is Bladder Cancer Awareness Month! This means it’s a great time to talk up bladder cancer to everyone you know! Despite being the sixth most common cancer, many people...

Bladder cancer is often considered a disease that strikes mainly men. This is because men are actually more likely to get it. But women, when diagnosed, tend to be diagnosed...

My friends joke that there's nothing too personal for me not to share on Facebook, and I have to agree. For some reason I don't understand, things just feel more...

You may have noticed that we added a new accessibility feature to our websites. This feature will allow community members to change the size, color, or contrast of the text...

Meditation has been shown to have multiple benefits on a person’s health, both physical and emotional. Regular meditation can help relieve pain, increase positive emotions, and improve memory and concentration...

The moment I became a caregiver to a bladder cancer patient, was when my first husband was diagnosed with metastatic disease. Suddenly, there was so much to do: research treatment...

Illustrations by Lucius Wisniewski for this comic done in partnership with his wife, Sarah Watts. There were many things that surprised me about my journey with bladder cancer. Maybe one...

Shirley Norris, an advocate here on BladderCancer.net, was recently highlighted on the Health Union podcast, Living With. Shirley was diagnosed with an aggressive bladder cancer in 2016, and she shares...

Bladder cancer causes dysfunction along the entire urinary tract. Unfortunately, those resulting and frequent trips to the bathroom — often to void just a small amount of fluid — don’t...

This year, it will be two years since having my bladder removed and although at the time I thought I had made the worst mistake of my life, I am...

Long before and well after I lost my first husband to bladder cancer, I believed in food as medicine and the potential value of integrative or complementary medicine such as...