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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  • Cancer and food - how the Community can help

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    We hear that many of you come to the Community looking for help around taking control of your diet, or worried that you might not be eating the right foods. Cancer or treatments can sometimes cause problems with eating, or may restrict what you can eat.

    Whatever your situation around food, there is usually some support to be found in the Community.

    Sugar-awareness is important to a healthy diet, but perhaps not for the…

  • How do you prepare to hear the news? Getting the results with member Wee Me

    Community member and Macmillan volunteer 'Wee Me' shares her experience of going to appointments, looking at scans and hearing her husband’s results, from her perspective as a carer and partner.
  • Meet Amy, Part 2: Introducing Stoic Philosophy

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    In a recent Community News Blog we met our new guest blogger Amy, who struggled with her emotions after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Amy has since used this experience to write a blog to help others manage their mental health through cancer and is keen to share some of the resources which helped her. If you missed the first part of the blog, ‘Meet Amy – Finding a way to move towards acceptance and peace’, you…