At the World Bladder Cancer Patient Forum 2026, World Bladder Cancer Patient Coalition members joined a workshop on turning the right partnerships into real impact, led by Adam Lynch of BEAT Bladder Cancer Australia and Mădălina Iamandei of All.Can International.

At the World Bladder Cancer Patient Forum 2026, World Bladder Cancer Patient Coalition members heard from Richard Vines, co-founder of Rare Cancers Australia, on how a charity built at his kitchen table changed national cancer policy, and what any patient organisation can learn from how it did it.

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.