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

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• Living with Desdemona

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• 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

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• 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. `

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• Pete's cancer blog

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Latest blog posts

• Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy

  12 Weeks Past Chemo

  Well it's now 12 weeks since my last chemo cycle. The one lasting side effect, fingernail problems, is changing very slowly indeed but is moving in the right direction. Apart from the two nails that had infections under them and dropped off (whic...

  excavator over 1 year ago
• 

  One Life Live It

  Seriously, you lost my blood test!

  It's the hectic week before Christmas and everyone is cramming in last minute meetings at work. I just got home from 4 weeks working overseas, so my evenings are spent writing cards, packing presents, baking Christmas cake and soaking fruit for the C...

  Irishgirl16 over 1 year ago
• Shaka For Life

  5 Things I wish I'd Known Before BC

  15th December marked 10 months since I received my BC diagnosis. Now, here I am: 1 mastectomy down1 lumpectomy down16 chemotherapy rounds in 1 further mastectomy to follow There are so many things I wish I knew before starting on this path. Here are ...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 1 year ago
• Shaka For Life

  Signs of Life...

  It's been 3mths since I last posted here. Sorry if that sounds like I'm in church! I've no idea where to start. These past months have been hard. I finished 5 months of chemotherapy a month ago. 4 rounds of EC and 12 of Paclitaxel. The s...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 1 year ago
• My Hodgkin's story

  The start of chemo - getting to know the E, A, C, P and Dac in BEACOPDac

  This is about the first few days of chemo. I will try to be very detailed and a bit explicit with some stuff. Before I got chemo I didn’t want to read or know anything about what the expect, so if you are reading this and think the same way, pr...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago
• Sid The Stoma

  Welcoming Sid The Stoma

  So my journey started way back in the early months of 2023 when I started loosing blood in my stools and on exploration the hospital discovered I had a polyp in my bowel, this was swiftly removed and all confirmed as benign. However bleeding continue...

  Char Cad over 1 year ago
• My Hodgkin's story

  The days leading up to the start of chemo...

  So, this entry is about the days leading to the start of the chemo. I am writing the entries in a very casual way just as thoughts come through. It must be a bit annoying to read but I think this is the best way I can fully express what was going thr...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago
• My Hodgkin's story

  How did it all start

  Coming to terms with writing the story of my diagnosis and treatment has taken some time. Some days you really want to sit down and write it, other days you just want to forget everything and kick the ball forward. Without making this too personal, I...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago
• agressive recurring cancer

  recurrent cancer

  Hi, I have had aggresive stage 3 breast cancer 6 times now including lymph nodes and pectoral muscle. On pension credit and would like to know if entiled to any benefits as well though resonably well i am definatly slowing down and my walk has change...

  laid back over 1 year ago
• Joining the (ovarian) cancer club

  Hit by a train, run over by a bus

  I hadn't felt right physically for around a month. I'm a 58 year old nursery teacher who is always busy outside of work too. I have a fantastic husband and 2 amazing daughters who I am very close to and we spend lots of time together. My elde...

  Ritaginger over 1 year ago