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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...

We take it as a fact in 2019 that smoking is a significant cause of cancer. Evidence-based medicine has demonstrated this. The knowledge that smoking is risky and increases the...

When I found out I was going to have to have my bladder removed and have a stoma and a bag, I had no idea what would be needed to...

Patients often hear a lot about the importance of clinical trials as a means of finding new treatments for bladder cancer. Less discussed is how to actually find and choose...

In January of this year, I wrote two articles that were published, ‘Making Changes to Diet and Lifestyle’ and ‘My Complements to Traditional Treatment’, explaining how I started a number...

Bladder cancer is more common in men than in women. In women, it usually impacts those who have never had children and those in early menopause. However, it does sometimes...

Well, it's coming to that time of year again for me...the annual checkup! This will be my second checkup since I had my bladder removed in 2017. As the time...

Telling our kids about cancer and surgery was not an easy task. Thankfully, they responded a lot better than we thought they would. Illustrations by Lucius Wisniewski for this comic...

Trust me. This isn’t going where you think it is. I was a 53-year-old man who never cried. Well, maybe at the end of Old Yeller or Planes, Trains and...

How many times have you heard someone say “you’ll beat cancer because you have a great attitude?” On its face, this sounds upbeat, hopeful, and encouraging. What could be wrong...

In January, I was admitted to ICU with sepsis. It came from a urinary tract infection. It was the first one I had ever had in my life, so I didn't...

For those of you who don't know me, Hello, my name is Anita and in 2016, I had the worst news ever. I was diagnosed with a neuroendocrine, small cell bladder...

As a person who is in remission from bladder cancer, I find that even now two years later I can still suffer from quite severe fatigue. I also seem to...

Getting a cancer diagnosis is never easy. But when you have cancer and an anxiety disorder, you tend to jump to the worst possible conclusions. Illustrations by Lucius Wisniewski for...

Caregivers are starting to get more attention—in the press, in research, and in discussions about healthcare and illness. And I am both happy and relieved to see this. What I...

We had just settled into the hospital room when the phone rang. I answered it. “Is this Ms. Khoshroo?” a perky female voice asked. “Yes,” I said, while mentally calculating...