This is a follow up from a previous post I wrote about bladder cancer and also a post that Dalene Entenmann wrote on the same subject. Here are some more statistics on bladder cancer. This report is a continued effort to bring awareness to the cancer that is steadily increasing in numbers in both men and women each year and to give information on two online support groups for this disease.

This year, 13,000 Americans will die from bladder cancer. It is now the fifth most common form of cancer. If it is caught early, the survival rate is 95 percent. If it is not the survival rate is less than 45 percent. Bladder cancer has the highest rate of reoccurrence of any cancer at 80 percent, including skin cancer with the next highest rate of reoccurrence at nearly 65 percent. There are over 500,000 bladder cancer survivors in the U.S. alone.

If you or a loved one has just been diagnosed with bladder cancer, you are not alone. There is a national support group called The Bladder Cancer Web Cafe. There you can join an online support group and have daily discussions on your therapy, treatments, and make some new friends all going through bladder cancer. You can read a lot of material and research about bladder cancer on their website.

If you are a women with bladder cancer or a survivor of this disease, there is a support group just for women called The Bladder Cancer Sisterhood. There you can network with other women going through or that have gone through this disease.