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

  Mr U 23 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

• A Journey Through Head and Neck Cancer

  Bumps n lumps

  Hi I had major surgery in 2009 for a benign tumour close to my spine in cervical region... (my hubby knows the exact bits) .......anyway after a lot of back n to,it was decided that it was a soft tissue tumour ...fast forward to 2012 and more surgery...

  Moxy1 over 1 year ago
• Shaka For Life

  Sanctuary - Eyes Forward continued

  It's one week since I finished radiotherapy. The 'nearly' final part to my bilateral breast cancer treatment. I will have a further elective mastectomy later this year.  In the meantime, I guess I am kind of entering the post treatment phase.&nb...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 1 year ago
• Shaka For Life

  Six Million Dollar Man

  One of my favourite tv shows as a child in the 1970s was The Six Million Dollar Man - Steve Austin It just popped into my thoughts recently. For the youngsters... Steve Austin is a pilot who is seriously injured In a plane crash. The government spend...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 1 year ago
• Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy

  First 12 Week Review

  Had a call from Helen, my CNS, this morning who confirmed that my periodic routine blood test confirmed everything is OK including PSA which remains undetectable at <0.05. This was very good news, although I was sweating a bit. Otherwise I ha...

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

  A Journey through head and neck cancer

  I'm writing this blog (starting on 2nd Feb 2025, a day before radiotherapy starts). I've written the story so far. I hope it will help others (it will definitely help me to write it!)  Click the link below to see it. Bridget x

  Scorpio2710 over 1 year ago
• Final Countdown!

  Ding, Ding...Seconds out...Final Round!

  I first got nto the ring with Cancer in 2019 after a routine bowel screening test. The prognosis was positive from the surgeon for success. Round 1 : November 2019 , successful surgery, my corner               &nbsp...

  Ando over 1 year ago
• Shaka For Life

  Eyes Forward

  Yesterday, I completed 5 days of radiotherapy. This means that my (main) cancer treatment is now at an end. Almost a year to the day of my fateful mammogram. Timeline • Mammogram not sure of the date and I don't have the energy to fight thro...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 1 year ago
• My Journey on Paclitaxel

  Second Zolondronic infusion 30th January

  Well tomorrow I will have my second Zolondronic infusion, my bloods have been done and all is well. Since my last blog things have really been very hard emotionally.  I have lost my mum, and my dad's parkinson's is really not good and we are spe...

  Alison218 over 1 year ago
• Losing my wife to cancer

  Introduction

  Trudy and I met on the 28th of Feb 1997, I was 25 just about to leave the navy after 8 years and she was 35, by April I had moved in with her and on the 12th of June 1999 we were married. It is only now after she has passed away that I really appreci...

  Atrum over 1 year ago
• Kidney Not

  Onco Check-in 28/01/2025

  I had my first CT scan after I stopped treatment on 17/01/25 and today I popped in to WGH Edinburgh to check-in with M.   It seems I've forgotten all my treatment management tricks.  I wore a (new) top with tight fitting sleeves and a ...

  Mmum over 1 year ago