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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Latest Posts

  • Community upgrade: an update for members

    On 29th July, we launched an upgrade of our Community site. The changes we have made are to ensure that the Community is working on a much more stable platform so that our users encounter less technical issues and that we can grow and develop the Community in a safe and well-supported way.

    We are not where we had hoped to be since launching the upgrade. We are working through a list of bugs and issues which we did not…

  • Planned maintenance - Thursday 10th September, 6am-10am

    Hi everyone,

    Due to some planned maintenance on the main Macmillan website, www.macmillan.org.uk, the Online Community will enter a read-only mode between 6:00am and 10:00am on Thursday 10th September.

    The main Macmillan website (macmillan.org.uk) will also be unavailable from 6:00am-10:00am.

    This means that you will not be able to log in or post on the Online Community during this time. You will still be able to read…

  • Cancer & Me 35 Years On – vol 4 – Brachytherapy – (the Radium Needle Implant)

    "Cancer and me 35 years on Vol 4 - Brachytherapy" written in white on a photograph of a field at sunset

    Today in our Community News blog Willo is back with the fourth instalment of her guest blog series called ‘Cancer & me 35 years on’. In this series, Willo, known on the Community as patsyann85, tells us about her experience of being diagnosed with Anal cancer in 1986 while living in Zambia. We will be sharing more of Willo’s writing and incredible artwork throughout the next few months in the Community…