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

  Mr U 17 minutes ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b HD

  W J 48 minutes 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
• Mumofcancer

  Mumofcancer 14 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 16 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

• Suea

  Suea

  How do I stop worrying that I will get lung cancer again. I had a lower left lobectomy in April 24 all cancer removed and no further treatment

  Suea over 1 year ago
• Shaka For Life

  There is Life After Chemotherapy?

  I completed 16 rounds (over 5 months) of chemotherapy on 12th November. Last Tuesday, 9 weeks later, I was in the shower, I had music playing and was singing along. I got a strange feeling, I had to pause and think about it. I then realised that the ...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 1 year ago
• Bladder Journey

  History so far.

  Male soon to be 69yrs young. I have had an enlarged prostrate for a few years but I had a green light surgery to reduce the size of the prostrate last November 2023. After that surgery I was left with urinary incontinence which I found very difficult...

  fella68 over 1 year ago
• Grief is so damn hard

  You knew didn’t you?

  I had a crash day today after my first counselling session yesterday.  I came away from it knowing it will be of benefit and went to our cafe to tell our 2 best friends all about it. A few tears but was ok. Ok when I got home. Ac...

  MrsVT over 1 year ago
• After the cancer took dad

  Unimaginable

  It's nearly been 2 weeks since my dad has passed. The house is quiet. I stayed to take care of him since his diagnosis around April 2024. Chemo seemed to work slightly, and every month his body would lose vitality. To be honest, I saw he was hidi...

  Tuesday2Tuesday over 1 year ago
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  Community News

  New Year, New Dates - Local Cancer Community Meet-ups 2025

  New January and February dates for our latest round of Local Cancer Community Meet-ups. If you're in Birmingham, Bradford, Cardiff, Dundee, Glasgow Coatbridge, or Rochester... read on!

  Matthew - Online Community Team over 1 year ago
• Grief is so damn hard

  My daughter s 3 yr anniversary

  Hi everyone just feeling very lost and very alone. It's her 3rd anniversary next week. I keep breaking down sobbing  and no matter where I am I can't hold it in my partner goes quiet and doesn't know what to say I keep thinking about...

  Shellyanne63 over 1 year ago
• My Hodgkin's story

  Ranting time - When diagnosis takes too long and other stories

  This morning I opened the BBC website and found this article GPs turn to AI to help with patient workload - BBC News Obviously a hot topic this week as the PM talked about how AI is going to help the UK and the NHS and what not... Will not get i...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  MacMillan bloggers, I thank you

  Hello, its been a while since I last posted here. December was a bit of a month and Christmas was a blur spent in the company of the ‘Cheese Eating Assassins’. I hope to do a longer post on these guys. And that’s not why I am writin...

  Dignahtee over 1 year ago
• Positive vibes

  Ovarian BRCA2 secondary in lymph nodes

  I have been through quite a lot to say the least but I’m still here I was on Olaparib parph inhibitors for 17 years unfortunately it stopped working last Jan 2024 prior to that I had 5 years of chemo  My only options now are to have pallia...

  Possitive over 1 year ago