Blood in urine projects

• Kidney cancer statistics

For more information on kidney cancer incidence, survival, mortality, and risk factors, visit Cancer Research UK's CancerStats.

• Bladder cancer statistics

For more information on bladder cancer incidence, survival, mortality and risk factors, visit Cancer Research UK's CancerStats.

Primary Care Trusts to trial new signs and symptoms campaigns

The Department of Health has announced that 3 projects have been funded to trial symptom awareness campaigns focusing on the symptom blood in urine (a symptom common to kidney and bladder cancers) in 2011/12. Estimates suggest that around 1000 deaths from bladder and kidney cancer could be avoided each year if five-year survival rates matched the best in Europe (estimates based on Abdel-Rahman et al 2009).

The funded projects will include a mixture of advertising, community engagement activities and working with health professionals to make sure the campaigns are appropriate to raise awareness of cancer in their local communities. All the campaigns will be using the 'Be Clear on Cancer' brand with most of the public facing activity commencing in early 2012.

The funded projects will bring together an important mix of primary care trusts, cancer networks, public health networks, hospital trusts, local authorities and voluntary organisations. The activity will run in the following areas:
• Nottingham
• Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset
• Ashton, Leigh, Wigan, Bolton, Bury, Central and Eastern Cheshire, Heywood, Middleton, Rochdale, Manchester, Oldham, Salford, Stockport, Trafford, Tameside and Glossop

For a list of organisations and websites that help and support people with cancer of the kidney, click here.

For a list of organisations and websites that help and support people with cancer of the bladder, click here.

For information about engaging with other charities and organisations, click here.

NICE referral guidelines for suspected cancer

• Blood in urine factsheet

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