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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  • September Community Catch up

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    Let’s take a look back at what’s been happening on the Community over the last month. Not everyone is logged onto the site everyday and with so many people coming to one place to access support, it can take some time to catch up with what’s been going on over the past few weeks.

    This month we welcomed 2,041 new members to the Online Community. With more and more people joining the site, we are seeing…

  • MDS, MPN, ET, PV and MF - support with rarer blood cancers

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    September was 'blood cancer awareness month' and we shared a Community News blog about the support available on the Community. You can catch up here, if you haven’t yet had a read.

    We’re following up on September's blood cancer awareness blog to let you know we’ve created a new forum for rarer blood cancers. You can find the new myelodysplasia (MDS) & myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) for…

  • Urology Awareness Month

    Urology. Defined in the Oxford dictionary as the branch of medicine concerned with the function and disorders of the urinary system. It’s always been a sensitive topic and often leads to not getting the medical attention that is required when a problem occurs in this area. In fact, according to the research done by Bupa, one in five UK adults who have experienced potential cancer symptoms, have not seen a doctor…