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• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 22 hours ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 1 day ago
• Community News

  This is a place where you can read about everything that's happening on Macmillan's Community. From guest stories, to sharing awareness months, here is where you'll hear about all of the latest from Macmillan's Community.

  Lizzie - Online Community Team 1 day ago
• Multiple Myeloma

  Tess123 7 days ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b HD

  W J 9 days ago
• Mumofcancer

  Mumofcancer 14 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 15 days ago
• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

  Emotions 16 days ago
• Warm your teaspoon

  Mrs of husband with bowel cancer - T3 N1 - chemo to be followed by radio then anterior bowel - depending what they find. Oxaliplatin and Capecitabine being the prescribed drugs. `

  Sierraoscar 17 days ago
• Pete's cancer blog

  Peterb 22 days ago

Latest blog posts

• My Hodgkin's story

  Sport and exercise during and after treatment

  Today I wanted to write about exercise during and after treatment. I realise that energy and exercise go hand in hand but I am trying to focus this on the sports side of things rather than the energy levels. Again after having a scan of what I have w...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago
• A poem i created that some of us may relate to x

  Poem

  Excuse me, I'm sorry are you talking to me? I thought you just said I have the big C There must be a mistake, this can't be right I don't feel ill, in fact I feel just fine Before I knew it, there's letters galore. In fact it gets b...

  Shelly4 over 1 year ago
• Welcome home

  Not the result we were expecting

  This will be a short post as I start to process the last couple of days. This time last week we had just flown in from a wonderful holiday in US visiting family and favourite places. we were due to complete the sale of our home in France th...

  Lizig over 1 year ago
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  Community News

  Lived experiences of dating with cancer

  Here on the Online Community, we know that cancer can have an impact on personal relationships especially when it comes to dating. Everyone deserves love and companionship so talking can help break down taboos.

  Megan- Online Community Team over 1 year ago
• Life's adventures

  Highs and lows

  So, 1st follow up CT scan had shown a 50% reduction in all tumours. The next showed continued improvement and we were feeling very optimistic. The Christmas period was a struggle for Rod because the mouth soreness caused by the mucositis made eating ...

  LozzaT over 1 year ago
• Words, Pathways, Journeys

  Finding my voice and writing my stories

  Being diagnosed with cancer has made me think about who I am in a different way. There have been so many moments when I’ve felt that it has broken me into a million different pieces, and I’ve been faced with the task, yet again, of piecin...

  Writing Lola over 1 year ago
• A Journey Through Head and Neck Cancer

  Freezing treatment

  Has anyone heard of cyro treatment for tumours?

  Moxy1 over 1 year ago
• 3 weeks post surgery

  3 weeks post surgery

  Here I am 3 weeks post serous endometrial cancer surgery, met with oncologist yesterday to discuss chemo and why do I feel worse today than since coming home 10 days ago. Heavy meeting yesterday really wiped me out and I'm now really achy and don...

  Half full cup over 1 year ago
• Thoughts and musings on living with cancer from Brighton Biker

  3 - A new perspective on risk and statistics

  As Sarah’s eyes widened and an expectant hush simmered in the room, I knew that this was a ‘big moment’. As any teacher will know, a ‘big moment’ is when a spontaneous silence arrives in a classroom and everyone is liste...

  BrightonBiker over 1 year ago
• A Journey Through Head and Neck Cancer

  Mr

  Hi, Everyone, this is my first time on the online community. I have had my prostrate cancer removed a year ago and now it has come back again. I have take hormone ejection then 7 weeks of radiation. Has anybody had to go through this ?  How have...

  Inst2025 over 1 year ago