Bladder Cancer Canada / Cancer de la vessie Canada
4936 Yonge St. Suite 1000 M2N 6S3 Toronto, ON, Canada

Thank you so much for all your support of this year’s 2020 Bladder Cancer Canada Awareness Walk! Despite the ongoing need to stay close to home, hundreds of Canadians raised awareness and funds in support of Bladder Cancer Canada’s mission. Now is the time to celebrate our collective efforts! Join us on Wednesday, October 7th at 7pm ET (tonight!) for our online wrap-up celebration. Bladder cancer survivors, volunteers and physicians across Canada will share messages of grat...itude and you’ll learn more about the impact of your efforts. We’ll end with the great reveal the total amount we were able to raise! This event will be held as a YouTube premiere and the community chat will be enabled so you can join the celebration. You can participate using this link: https://youtu.be/VR8UFmTO-L4 Many thanks to our national media partners Corus Entertainment and Global News for producing tonight’s video segment. (To participate in the community chat, or leave comments, you will need to sign in to YouTube using your Google/Gmail account. When you leave your first comment, you will also be asked to agree to set up your own YouTube channel. As far as we can tell, this is just you agreeing to YouTube’s Terms of Service. When you setup your channel, YouTube will ask for your name. This is how you will appear in the comments and the chat. If you are concerned about your privacy, please use an alias.)

Bladder Cancer Canada’s One2One Peer Support Program has a significant positive impact on Canadians diagnosed with #bladdercancer. We are fortunate to have over 40 Peer Support Volunteers (PSVs) on our roster who are trained and can offer individual support by phone. However, we have a critical need for PSVs in the following categories: Caregiver/spouse/partner of bladder cancer patient/survivor Patient/survivor who has had a partial bladder resection ... Patient/survivor under the age of 40 Patient/survivor who has participated in a clinical trial Patient/survivor who was diagnosed with muscle-invasive bladder cancer, but still has their bladder intact Patient/survivor who has experienced sexual dysfunction Female patient/survivor with an illeal conduit (urostomy) If you’re interested in finding out more, please visit our website for more information or to fill out an application form: https://bladdercancercanada.org/en/volunteer/ Our National Program Director will connect with you within 1-2 weeks after receiving your application.

Here’s a recent article from the BMJ, titled Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis. It describes the impact of cancer treatment delay for three treatment types (surgery, radiation and systemic therapy) and for seven cancers (bladder, breast, colon, rectum, cervix, head and neck, lung). This article is a collaboration between Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and their UK colleagues from King’s College London. (Content in English). ...https://bit.ly/3kJgmKG Voici un article récent du BMJ, intitulé Mortality due to cancer treatment delay : systematic review and meta-analysis [Mortalité due aux retards de traitement : revue systématique et méta-analyse.] Il décrit l'impact des retards de traitement sur trois types de traitement (chirurgie, radiothérapie et traitement systémique), pour sept cancers (vessie, sein, colon, rectum, col de l'utérus, cervico-facial, poumon). Cet article est le résultat d'une collaboration entre l'Université Queen's en Ontario et ses collègues du King’s College London au Royaume-Uni. (Contenu en anglais). https://bit.ly/3kJgmKG

DERNIER RAPPEL POUR LE WEBINAIRE Cancer de la vessie : Défis relatifs à l'intimité, la santé sexuelle et la santé pelvienneFace au cancer de la vessie, les défis reliés à l’intimité, la santé sexuelle et la santé pelvienne peuvent sembler secondaires, mais ils peuvent avoir des impacts significatifs sur la qualité de vie des individus et la vie de couple. Il existe du soutien et des outils pour vous aider. Ce webinaire abordera toutes les questions que vous n’avez jamais os...é poser en compagnie de deux experts du Québec, Dr Marc Steben, médecin de famille, GMF La Cité du Parc Lafontaine et ex-membre de l’exécutif de la Société internationale des études de la maladie de la vulve et du vagin et Mme Marie-Josée Lord, physiothérapeute en santé pelvienne et directrice de la clinique spécialisée Kinatex en santé pelvienne.Les présentations seront préenregistrées ce qui permettra aussi à nos conférenciers d'aborder certaines questions en direct pendant la session grâce à la fonction de clavardage de la plateforme YouTube. Register by November 24 at noon EST: https://bit.ly/35yMRa9

Are you currently using cannabis? The Urological Cancer Centre for Research and Innovation (UCCRI) wants to know about the experience of cancer patients when using cannabis for their cancer. Fill out their quick 15 - minute survey here: Perception of Cannabis by Urological Cancer Patients https://bit.ly/3cc8O0o . Your decision to participate in this study will not be known, and no personal identifiers will be collected. .. Consommez-vous actuellement du cannabis? Le Urologic...al Cancer Centre for Research and Innovation (UCCRI) voudrait en savoir davantage au sujet de l'expérience des patients atteints du cancer qui consomment du cannabis pour leur cancer. Remplissez leur bref sondage de 15 minutes ici: https://bit.ly/3kyUlhv . Votre décision de participer à cette étude ne sera pas révélée à qui que ce soit et aucun identifiant personnel ne sera recueilli. See more

Join Dr. Rob Rutledge in this week’s webinar in the 8 part Empowerment Series. CCSN's Remarkable Cancer Survivor's Guide to A Healthy Relationship with Stress will be on Thursday, November 12th from 12-1pm EST. This webinar will discuss how you can work with stress in a way that empowers you and nurtures your body's natural capacity to heal. Click here to register: https://bit.ly/2UjCosQ