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Motion ref. S6M-05553 On July 28th, 2022, a Motion was submitted to the Scottish parliament on Bladder Cancer, led by Stuart McMillan, MSP from Greenock and Inverclyde (Scottish National Party). The motion was supported by over 25 other Members of the Scottish...

Motion ref. S6M-05553 On July 28th, 2022, a Motion was submitted to the Scottish parliament on Bladder Cancer, led by Stuart McMillan, MSP from Greenock and Inverclyde (Scottish National Party). The motion was supported by over 25 other Members of the Scottish...

The NHS released new Quality of Life data on 20th September 2022 Earlier this year, Fight Bladder Cancer called for bladder cancer data from the NHS Cancer Quality of Life Survey to be made publicly available separately, rather than grouped with other cancers. We...

Tuesday 6th of December 2022, 6:30 - 7:30 PM GMT, Our living with a stoma webinar will be taking place on Tuesday 6th of December 2022, 6:30 - 7:30 PM GMT.   We hope that the webinar will be helpful for many of our supporters and followers. Sign up here.  At first,...

May 2022 Bladder Cancer Awareness month is in May.  This year, UK charity ‘Fight Bladder Cancer’ aims to break the stigma around symptoms deemed ‘embarrassing’ by patients to promote early diagnosis and save lives. Common symptoms include the discovery of blood in the...

The Fight Bladder Cancer private forum is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is a safe space for everyone who is affected by bladder cancer, not just patients. Anyone who has someone with bladder cancer in their life is welcome to join. On the forum, you will...

Collated by Dr. Lydia Makaroff, CEO, Fight Bladder Cancer We knew the members of our private support forum would be full of great advice, but even we were delighted with the response to our request for some tips and tricks for family members for the Carers’ edition of...

July 2022 -The Department of Health and Social Care recommends Nivolumab for high-risk people who have had surgery to remove their bladder cancer to reduce the risk of cancer returning and where chemotherapy is unsuitable -Nivolumab works by attaching to a protein...

Dorothy Markham was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2016 when she was 80 years old. Since then, she has played a pivotal role in raising awareness of the disease in the community. Upon diagnosis, she was shocked at the lack of information for the public on bladder...

Tragically, Kimberley Greaves became a young widow at just 44. Her husband, Andrew, died three and a half years after receiving a bladder cancer diagnosis. Andrew had been passing blood in his urine but had put off visiting a GP due to his busy job, though Kimberley...