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

  Mr U 1 hour ago
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• 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 2 days 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

• Grief is so damn hard

  Ambushed again

  So today was so frosty and black ice every where. I went out and did a little skid. I reached out laughing “Dont let me fall”  I crashed down. Not physically. with reality.  A little while ago I posted on the forum about little ...

  MrsVT over 1 year ago
• Words, Pathways, Journeys

  Writing for mind and body

  One of the things I’ve really struggled with since my diagnosis, has been the way that my body had clearly been in trouble for a good while before I even had an inkling that something wasn’t right. How can that be? How can I have experien...

  Writing Lola over 1 year ago
• Grief is so damn hard

  Week 15

  So today it is 15 weeks since my beautiful Valen was ripped from me. Ive started my blog today due to 2 reasons. First, my beautiful Valen loved Father Brown and a new series is starting. Secondly, we were due to fly to Singapore and Malays...

  MrsVT over 1 year ago
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  Community News

  When Positivity Hurts: Insights from the Online Community

  Online Community members share their personal experiences dealing with toxic positivity.

  Dylan - Online Community Team over 1 year ago
• Shaka For Life

  Dear Shaka, it's ok...

  It really is ok: • To grieve the loss of life as you knew it.• To sorely miss your much loved African locs, which you nurtured for nearly two decades.• To miss your thriving private practice and financial independence. • To miss y...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 1 year ago
• Shaka For Life

  Gratitude

  • I am alive • Successful mastectomy and lumpectomy in 2024, all margins clear • Survived 5 months of chemotherapy • Great breast prosthesis • I have the support of a loving fella, friends and family • I am managing part...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 1 year ago
• Shaka For Life

  Happy New Year 6th Jan 2025

  2025 brings a new year, unlike any I've experienced before. In a few weeks it'll be one year since I went for 'that' mammogram. Tomorrow was meant to be the day of my 2nd mastectomy (elected), which would have completed my treatment f...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 1 year ago
• My Hodgkin's story

  The B and the O, second and third weeks of BEACOPPdac cycle #1

  I have been on holidays and enjoying the Christmas period so wasn’t in the mood to write anything. Quite a difference compared to a year ago. Due to lack of movement with my GP and being refused a CT scan in A&E in early Dec 2023 (another G...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago
• Advanced GOJ cancer chemo advice please

  Capecitabine

  Hi there does anyone have experience of severe withdrawal symptoms on your rest days of chemo?

  Meghan over 1 year ago
• Peter's Blog

  A Living With Cancer Entry

  As January signifies 4 years since being told it looked like I had cancer, I’ve been thinking about how myself and my wife live with it and how it affects our lives, so I thought I’d do a post that doesn’t include any updates on my ...

  HawkeyeBrown over 1 year ago