At the World Bladder Cancer Patient Forum 2026, World Bladder Cancer Patient Coalition members learned how a Facebook support group in Taiwan grew into a seat on the national health insurance committee, and what any small organisation can borrow from that journey.

At the World Bladder Cancer Patient Forum 2026, our members took part in a hands-on workshop on Health Technology Assessment, using a fictional drug decision to learn what makes patient input truly count.

At the World Bladder Cancer Patient Forum 2026, WBCPC’s President Lori Cirefice and Executive Director Alex Filicevas discuss what it really takes to support our member community and how WBCPC is closing the gap between global resources and local impact.

At the World Bladder Cancer Patient Forum 2026, a workshop on AI tools for patient advocates set out where artificial intelligence genuinely helps a small team, where it must be kept out, and why the quality of the output is only ever the quality of the brief.

At the World Bladder Cancer Patient Forum 2026, four member organisations shared the projects that made a real difference at home, from Australia and Canada to Spain and Malawi.

Our Forum opened in Hong Kong for the first time, with a keynote from President Lori Funk Cirefice and a welcome from Dr Ka-On Lam of the Hong Kong Anti-Cancer Society.

Explore our full series of bladder cancer factsheets now available in Italian, developed with our member organisation PaLiNUro.

This week, our Executive Director Alex Filicevas is in Portugal for the launch of ECHoS Phase 2, a European project building a network of cancer mission hubs across the continent.

This year marks fifty years since BCG was first used to treat bladder cancer. We remember Professor Andrew Bruce, one of the three authors behind that study, who has died at the age of 101.

The World Bladder Cancer Patient Forum 2026 is just around the corner and there is still time to join us in Hong Kong this September. The Forum is the only global gathering led by and for the bladder cancer patient community, bringing two days of connection, learning and collaboration.