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

  Mr U 13 hours ago
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• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 2 days 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 8 days ago
• Mumofcancer

  Mumofcancer 15 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 16 days ago
• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

  Emotions 17 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 18 days ago
• Pete's cancer blog

  Peterb 23 days ago

Latest blog posts

• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  London Calling, again!

  Sunday 23rd June and I head back to London. I have an 8am appointment for an angiogram at Northwick Park Hospital. It’s a pretty awful journey. I get to the station to find my fast train has been cancelled; but I’m just in time for an ear...

  Dignahtee over 2 years ago
• Shaka For Life

  Am I Brave?

  I've lost count of the number of times I've been called brave, since I began this nightmare journey. I'm always left deeply discomfitted. Even though I'm not sure why. In the face of a bilateral breast cancer diagnosis... Is it brave ...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 2 years ago
• Shaka For Life

  Two Breasts. One Breast. None.

  They tried to make me go to radiotherapy. I said no! No! No! In the weeks following my bilateral breast surgery, I waited to find out the verdict. Had the surgery managed to remove all of the cancer? Was there any spread to my lymph nodes? Had it spr...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 2 years ago
• Walt’s widow

  Day 7 of my husbands passing

  How do I start? well today is the first day I have been able to think  about writing anything down last Sunday 30 th June was the day my husband of 40 yrs died, he had been diagnosed 4 mths ogo with terminal lung cancer, the worst kind,most aggr...

  Jayneydee57 over 2 years ago
• Chubby Bladder Cancer Warrior 51M

  The last month - a bit of background

  So I'm a 51 year old male from the UK, overweight but generally well.  Yes High Blood pressure and Type 2 diabetes, but normally no aches and pains etc. During April and May I noticed a reduction in my urine flow, needing to pee more urgentl...

  JMo51Male over 2 years ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  parkrun #250

  In the time before breast cancer, I was a keen runner. Never fast, I had probably started too late in life for that, but it was something that gave me a lot of head space. I had been able to complete events such as the ten mile Great South Run, and r...

  Coddfish over 2 years ago
• 

  One Life Live It

  The Annual Trip to the Hospital

  I always face into my annual check up and mammogram with a level of trepidation and a fair few “what ifs…..” on the few days beforehand.  Normally I am able to compartmentalise my thoughts of recurrence risk, but as the check ...

  Irishgirl16 over 2 years ago
• Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy

  Day 2 After First Chemo

  First things first. I obtained a print of my pre-chemo assessment blood test results. My referral PSA from January 24 was 2.07, having risen from 0.57 in January two years previously. I don't know what it was immediately before current treatment star...

  excavator over 2 years ago
• Peter's Blog

  March to July 2024 Scan Results

  In this blog entry I have broken things down a little bit, at the top I have a month by month breakdown of things, then at the end little sub headings “fatigue” and “random rant”. So as always, grab a tea (or a pillow if you r...

  HawkeyeBrown over 2 years ago
• It Cannot Get Any Worse

  04/07/24

  In my late teens my mum was diagnosed with CLL and as i was sitting in the back of the car eating a cheeseburger with tears rolling down my face - i thought “this couldn’t get any worse” but it did In my early 20s my mum was diagno...

  brokenrose24 over 2 years ago