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.

Browse by topics

Community updates     Cancer Awareness     Tips, ideas and recipes       

Cancer stories     Supporting someone with cancer    Art, photography and creative writing

Latest Posts

  • Being a partner and a carer: how cancer can affect relationships

    A loved one being diagnosed with cancer can have just as big an emotional and practical impact as a personal diagnosis. This can have a greater impact if you also become a carer. Many members here on the Community team who are supporting a partner might want to do everything they can to help. But that doesn’t mean that you don’t need support too.

    Here in the Community News blog, we often say every diagnosis…

  • Improvements are coming

    Image of a path with 'Community Improvements' in writing

    On Wednesday 5th May, we will be introducing the first of our improvements to the Community. In our previous blog, ‘Look out for improvements’, we announced that we would be making some key improvements to the site.

    We are continually grateful for all of the feedback that you send to us, the Community team, as this is what has helped us to work on the things that matter the most to our members.

    We’ve got…

  • Where do you find support online?

    Hi everyone, 

    It's Eliza from the Community team. Finding the right support for you when you're going through an experience with cancer is really important. We're interested to know whether you use other support groups outside the Online Community. 

    You'll see the poll below this post, where you can vote to let us know. 

    Making the Online Community better for you is at the heart of everything we do. If you…