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

  Mr U 41 minutes ago
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  W J 20 hours ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 3 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 3 days ago
• Multiple Myeloma

  Tess123 9 days ago
• Mumofcancer

  Mumofcancer 16 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 17 days ago
• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

  Emotions 18 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 19 days ago
• Pete's cancer blog

  Peterb 24 days ago

Latest blog posts

• Peter's Blog

  June Through To Scan Results October 2023

  Much like my last entry as this covers another good few months I have split it into sections again to try and cover how I have been feeling, how treatment has been going and how I’ve been trying to get out and do things. So go grab a tipple of ...

  HawkeyeBrown over 2 years ago
• Beginning of climbing the mountain (Chemotherapy Treatment for HER 2 Negative)

  First day of chemo treatment

  I’ve been awake since 2am and decided to get up at 5.  Feeling anxious but happy to start the treatment too.   After visited my new workplace yesterday, I’m feeling even more positive.   I also hope the chemotherapy wo...

  Neoza over 2 years ago
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  Community News

  Catching up with the Liver Cancer Forums for Liver Cancer Awareness Month

  October is Liver Cancer Awareness Month. In this Community News Blog we will be catching up with the liver cancer forum on the Community to see what support has been shared during the run up to the month.

  Steph - Online Community Team over 2 years ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  The sequel...part two of 'Responsible Adults and a Big Knife'

  Responsible adults and a big knife – Part 2 Everyone has gone and there is a new nurse present. The recovery nurse. She asks me how I am feeling. Good, I think except my throat is a bit sore? She removes the air-way; a plastic tube that keeps y...

  Dignahtee over 2 years ago
• Prostate cancer Brachytherapy three Months later

  The Journey Part 2 after Brachytherapy

  So you need to read my first part before you read this although if you have had the treatment you know what it is like and so to start part two. I thought it would be pretty plain sailing had the treatment then a case of recovery but oh no first off ...

  Tel64 over 2 years ago
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  Community News

  How to Use the Online Community – Private Messages, Public Forums, and User Blogs

  If you’re brand new to the Online Community, you may be wondering where to start. Although the site is packed with useful resources, there are three main features you’ll want to get to know first: Private Messages, the Cancer Forums, and user Blogs. Need a quick overview? This is the article for you!

  Matthew - Online Community Team over 2 years ago
• My Triple Negative Cancer Journey

  Surgery and post operation results.

  I had my second surgery on Wednesday 6th September.  I went into hospital at 7.15 am and went down for surgery at 3.30 pm. I had a lumpectomy on my left side and a full auxiliary clearance on my right side. Shortly after waking up I was brought ...

  Daisy53 over 2 years ago
• Cathy

  Battle against Pancreatic Cancer

  I care for my husband who is battling against pancreatic cancer, he has been through so much he had the whipple operation 2021, then went through 6 months of chemotherapy, he had a year clear then it came back, had 3 months of chemotherapy, then targ...

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

  First puff of the trade winds

  Today is the first day I have had good news for quite some time.  First, and to my surprise, the MRI report from last Thursday evening is back in, and it shows all my liver mets have reduced, with no new lesions formed anywhere in the liver. Sec...

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

  Still waiting for a trade wind to arrive

  I am, as my consultant said last week, ‘stuck’. The creatinine level is stubbornly stable at around 1.75 x my previous baseline. Whilst there might be some further small improvement, it looks like that may be my permanent new normal. I am...

  Coddfish over 2 years ago