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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  • National pet month

    National pet month written in white text over a photo of a tabby cat putting their paw against a human's palm in a 'high five' motion.

    April is National Pet month and we want to take a moment to talk about the support given. For those who have furry, smooth, big or small animals in your lives, you know how much they can affect your wellbeing. In our Animals are family too forum, we see how much animals mean to you and how they have provided support in different ways. 

    Two photographs of small dogs

    “While I was having my radiotherapy and chemotherapy in March/April 2019, Chynna would always come on…

  • Hair Loss - Information and Guidance

    Hair Loss - Information and Guidance

    Image: Landscape of Yorkshire moors with dark clouds sitting over a valley on a spring day.

    On the Community team we often ask for your input or feedback, we want to make sure we’re listening to our members. In a recent newsletter we asked for you to get in touch with the topics you would like to see us write about. In today’s Community News Blog, we’re talking about a topic you asked for - hair loss. …

  • Community guidelines update – sharing medical pictures

    'Community guidelines update' written in white over a picture of a sunset over the sea.

    Please note that this blog is no longer up-to-date. To see the most recent review of the Community guidelines, please see our more recent blog here.

    We have some important information to share here on the Online Community. We have decided to trial updating part of the Community guidelines around medical images.

    Our Community guidelines are what everyone agrees to when they join the Online Community. They’re in place…