Community News

These news items are generated and published by Macmillan's Online Community Team. In this section you’ll find some posts written by the Online Community team in partnership with our Cancer Information Development team. We also feature personal stories from our members.

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  • Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

     "Ovarian cancer awareness month" written over a picture of a woman on a pier with a flowing skirt and scarf,

    March is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, so to recognise this I’ve been speaking with three members of our Ovarian cancer group, and asked them to share with the Community a little about their experiences, and any tips they might have on coping.

    If you’ve had any thoughts or an experience with ovarian cancer you’d like to share, go ahead and do so in the comments section below.

    'My main difficulty was…

  • 2020 on the Online Community

    Watercolour picture of a snowy forest of pine trees

    Picture from , as part of 2020’s Winter Picture Festival

    Looking back on this year, life might feel very different now than it did a year ago. One thing hasn’t changed: the Online Community is still here for you as a source of support. Here in the Community team, we are so proud of all of our members for sharing their experiences, and offering support to others. We wanted to reflect on everything that the Online…

  • Planned Community 'downtime'

    Hi everyone,

    We’re posting this afternoon to let you know about some planned Community ‘downtime’ which will be happening next Tuesday, 11th February from 7am-1pm.

    We are carrying out essential maintenance which will better protect the Community and its users from security risks.

    We have tried to coordinate this to cause minimum disruption and whilst we are hopeful that the site might be up and running…