Our Work
We have four main strands to our work:
- Improving outcomes for bladder cancer patients
- Improving research into bladder cancer
- Improving patient support
- Raising awareness of bladder cancer and the symptoms
What we do
We are working to improve outcomes for bladder cancer patients by:
- Raising awareness of the signs and symptoms among the public so they seek advice sooner
- Health professional ABC UK Education Programme
- Improving the treatment and management of bladder cancer to increase patient survival rates in line with that achieved for other common cancers
We are working to improve research into bladder cancer by:
- Identifying the key research priorities
- Encouraging, contributing to and funding research
- Improving research data and statistics
We are working to improve patient support through:
- Our high quality information materials and resources library
- Actively increasing the number of bladder cancer patient support groups across the UK
- Providing advice and support to both new and existing groups and helping to bring groups together
- Helping to give bladder cancer patients a voice
You can read about some of our work in the ABC UK November 2023 Update: ABC UK Our Work Update Nov 2023.pdf
How we help you
Latest News / Events
Setting up a support group for your patients - Webinar for Nurses - Mon 18 Aug 2025 08/07/2025
This is a FREE ABC UK online Zoom session, which is being run in response to requests from urology and cancer nurses, on how to set up and run a successful patient support group. The session will be led by one of the ABC UK Patient Support team, together with two advanced nurse specialists...

