Cancer of the Bladder

UK sources of information and / or support

 The leaflets section of Patient UK

Includes a leaflet called Bladder Cancer.

 Cancerbackup

Cancerbackup aims to help people live with cancer by providing information and emotional support for patients, their families and health professionals.

 CancerHelp UK

CancerHelp UK is a free information service about cancer and cancer care for people with cancer and their families. It is brought to you by Cancer Research UK.

 Royal Marsden

A leading UK cancer centre, recognised worldwide for the quality of its services. Site includes comprehensive, authoritative patient information on bladder cancer. See their Patient Information section.

 Urostomy Association

Aims of the Urostomy Association are to assist those who are about to undergo or who have undergone surgery which results in the formation of a unirary stoma; to assist carers in the rehabilitation of the ostomate; to improve the quality of life of urostomates and those who care for them; to undertake such research as the membership feels is necessary to enhance the life of urostomates

 Wessex Urology Support Group

Aims to relieve, assist and help persons who have undergone, or are about to undergo urological surgery for urinary diversion and to improve their quality of life and of those who care for them

  Intravesical microwave hyperthermia with intravesical chemotherapy for superficial bladder cancer

A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Intravesical microwave hyperthermia with intravesical chemotherapy for superficial bladder cancer.

  Bladder Cancer

Information from the North London Cancer Network

 Medicine Guide for Bladder Cancers

Medicine Guides provide reliable information about medicines (drugs), conditions and the different treatment options available. They have been developed in the UK as part of the Medicines Information Project. Includes detailed information about medicines used to treat bladder cancers.

See also the general cancer page for many other links.

Further sources / more detailed information

Some non-UK sites

The following list popular non-UK health information sites with content aimed at the general public. They are mainly from the US. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included but these large sites are comprehensive.

• Non-UK disease / illness sites
• Non-UK self-help / support group sites

More detailed medical information

The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.

• PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
• Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
• Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, etc.
• Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
• Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
• Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.