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

  Mr U 19 hours ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b

  W J 20 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

• Chemo/Radio With Cysplatin 3 weekly. For Womb cancer.

  Day 1

  Go into hospital for 8am. Lot of questions and then wait. Apparently waiting for drugs to arrive. Drugs arrive about to start - but the cysplatin is 70mg and the doctors prescription says 86mg. Queue a 2 hour wait while they sort paperwork.  1 h...

  Act over 2 years ago
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  Community News

  Dealing with Fear and Anxiety during Cancer Treatment

  In this blog, one of our Community Champions Jane is sharing some of the emotions she felt whilst having treatment and some of the strategies she used to help cope with the uncertainty.

  Megan- Online Community Team over 2 years ago
• Bladder Cancer Journey

  End of 6 week induction

  The six week induction was over six weeks ago. There was a break for 6 weeks, then a cystoscopy. All looked good except for an inflamed area which needs to have a biopsy. So going through pre-op process with biopsy scheduled for June 24 hopefully. Re...

  Leo1 over 2 years ago
• Dandy

  Target Therapy

  On my second round of sinitulib target therapy, the side effects sometimes make me very tired and lethargic. My moods are very up and down, sometimes I carry on and want to enjoy life other times I'm in bed all day. Not sure how long this will go...

  Dandylion over 2 years ago
• A carers blog

  Brain fog

  There’s nothing like a dose of chemotherapy coupled with sleepless nights to bring on a rampant case of brain fog in my experience. Even the relatively mild treatment for solar keratosis seemed to turn my husband’s brain to mush. This, al...

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

  Step down slowly

  Today was my 3-weekly oncology review and crunch time on whether I can finally come off the steroids. I haven’t been feeling good for the last few weeks. Aches. Stiffness. Headaches. Feeling tired and listless. Sometimes feeling slightly queasy...

  Coddfish over 2 years ago
• A carers blog

  Mood swings

  Quite a lot of posts on this site mention mood swings and uncharacteristic aggression amongst cancer sufferers. I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday whose husband also has cancer and she was telling me about he gets really quite angry with her...

  Jdet over 2 years ago
• Upcoming hysterectomy

  Upcoming hysterectomy

  Hi  I havnt written here before but have read a lot of your blogs i am 68 and after a bout of Covid at Christmas I had a bleed was not able to see a dr until mid January due to the Covid and he referred me to a gynocologist … I was not ex...

  Larfer over 2 years ago
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  Community News

  Writing for healing

  Have you thought about diarising your personal experiences? Lots of people find it helpful to diarise their own experiences, either by setting up a personal blog on the Online Community or by using a pen and paper. In this blog we will help you set up your own blog and share information about the benefits of diarising your experiences.

  Megan- Online Community Team over 2 years ago
• A carers blog

  Keeping a sense of humour

  Is it possible to keep a sense of humour when your husband has had his bladder, lymph glands, urethra and prostate removed, has been declared clear from cancer only to be told six months later that the cancer is probably back?  I think my husban...

  Jdet over 2 years ago