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

  Mr U 14 hours ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b

  W J 15 hours ago
• 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!

  I am now well and truly in the clutches of a London cardiac team. I have described how what felt like imminent major cancer surgery was cancelled by the anaesthetist’s concern that my heart may not cope with the 15-hour operation. After several...

  Dignahtee over 2 years ago
• My Journey on Paclitaxel

  4th July completion of 7th Radiotherapy treatment

  Only 2 more sessions to go!!!!!!! I have been fairly good with the last few radiotherapy sessions. I started taking 1 Benadryl antihistamine in the morning before my session, and made sure I didn't have any creams at all on my boobie beforehand. ...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  Do Bears Sh*t in the Woods?

  Well, it’s been nearly six weeks since I finished part four of this journal and quite a lot has been going on. We have just past the very middle of the year and Stonehenge has been temporarily defaced by the ‘Just Stop Oil’ group, I...

  Dignahtee over 2 years ago
• Grant’s prostrate cancer Chemo blog

  Days 1-7 and I’m still here to tell the tale!

  I woke up on day 1, well i say woke up, I’d been awake all night. Just one hour’s sleep. The Dexamethasone saw to that. Gosh that stuff is evil. Thankfully they didn’t send me home with any, just another steroid Perdnisalone. You ta...

  Grantyo12 over 2 years ago
• Shaka For Life

  This is a public shout out to my private posse, my saving grace.

  My Big Sis, Judith, my protector and stand-in mum, from the day of my birth. My best friend. I entered this world six years after her, (she would say 5.5 yrs) it was love at first sight.  Now Judith is my cancer buddy. At my side throughout this...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 2 years ago
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  Community News

  Check-up appointments after endometrial cancer treatment- Jane's story

  Jane is recovering from Endometrial Carcinoma Sarcoma and shares her experience of a recent check up in the hope that it will reassure those who are about to undergo one.

  Megan- Online Community Team over 2 years ago
• Shaka For Life

  My Decolletage is a Car Crash - Bilateral Breast Surgery

  Is this what bilateral breast surgery really looks like? I had wanted an immediate diep reconstruction. I chose diep, as I didn't like the idea of having foreign matter inserted, particularly as I'm highly allergic. My surgeon had strongly re...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 2 years ago
• Shaka For Life

  Your Hair is Your Beauty?

  Present Day Written during EC round #2 - 2nd July 2024 2wks ago, after receiving my EC chemotherapy round #1. I cut my very long hair. This, in preparation for the dreaded chemo shedding. I have been nurturing my hair in African Locs since 2006, they...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 2 years ago
• Shaka For Life

  Thank You

  I just wanted to say thank you to those who've stopped by to read my blog. I'm finding it really cathartic to write it down and it helps to know that others see my words. I'm writing in flashbacks and hope to catch up with present day soo...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 2 years ago
• Shaka For Life

  Testing Times and Grim Waiting

  Over the coming weeks, I began to learn about this strange, new and scary world of breast cancer. It seemed this was now my life. There were MDTs, types of breast cancer, (who knew there were so many) grading, staging, reconstruction.  The wait...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 2 years ago