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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  • Planned Community Maintenance - 11th August, 7am-10am

    Hi everyone,

    We’re writing this afternoon with an important update.

    Tomorrow morning, Tuesday 11th August, the Community will be entering a read only state from 7am until 10am.

    This is to allow us to fix two issues that we know users are experiencing just now. This maintenance will fix the below:

    • Logging in issue where users are receiving the error message ‘the user already exists’. See below a screenshot of the…
  • Cancer & Me 35 Years On - Vol 3 - The Journey Home

      Painting of two women with long hair, a horse and doves, surrounded by fantastical flowers and swirling shapes in blue and white

                                                    Fantasy (batik) by Willo

    Today in our Community News blog Willo is back with the third instalment of our 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 th…

  • “One night I was woken up with an odd feeling.” – Alyson’s story

    This week in Community news we’re sharing Alyson’s story and experiences with Renal cell carcinoma, a form of kidney cancer,  from her first diagnosis to today.

    At the age of 20 years old, I emigrated to South Africa with my then husband Gerard.  At the age of 40 years old I was working as a Logistics Manager for Howden Safanco and had been divorced for 2 years.  I had by this time two daughters, Kimberley (16…