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

  Mr U 4 hours ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b

  W J 1 day 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 4 days ago
• Multiple Myeloma

  Tess123 9 days ago
• Mumofcancer

  Mumofcancer 16 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 18 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

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  Community News

  “It has taken me over 5 years to come to terms with what I went through” -Dimple is sharing her story

  Dimple shares her cancer diagnosis story and how telling her children about her cancer was the hardest thing she has ever done. Cancer and treatment can have an emotional and financial impact on your life and Dimple tells us about some of the challenges she faced when living with cancer.

  Megan- Online Community Team over 2 years ago
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  Community News

  Summer Picture Festival

  Look back on summer on the Online Community, through pictures and artwork from Community members.

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

  The Waiting Game

  7am Friday 14th July 2023 It’s the waiting that’s killing me. It might just do that. After a sleepless night may not be the most coherent time to hit the keyboard, this essay may get no further than our laptop. If it does, apologies if it...

  Dignahtee over 2 years ago
• Picc Line

  Picc Line

  Before the procedure the nurse will sit down with you and have a chat with you, you can bring someone with you for this bit, she should explain everything that is going to happen and you to sign some paperwork to give her consent to proceed with the ...

  Positive thinking over 2 years ago
• My journey with Bladder Cancer

  Update week 13: Chemo cycle 3 - the start of the 75% phase

  Back here again. The anxiety that builds during that 3rd week of a cycle when you have no treatment and focus on building your strength up again creates a palpable sense of dread that something will delay the next cycle! Blood test first thing Mond...

  kaspont over 2 years ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  Lump-Gate - the hernia that wasn't

  The benefits of hindsight eh? 2023 started to shape up between Christmas 2022 and New Year. Number one son was heading back to Cardiff after spending Christmas with us. The now normal rail strikes destroyed the timetable for his return journey, and ...

  Dignahtee over 2 years ago
• Chondrosarcoma of the Rib - a journey

  Some of the little but worst things

  I'll add to this list as I think of them but the treatment and operation are only one bit - there were small things that sometimes could just make me low; disproportionately it seemed, but often because the small thing was the last straw.  H...

  NetTiger over 2 years ago
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  Community News

  Coffee, cake and catching up with the Community

  September is the month of the famous ‘World’s Biggest Coffee Morning’ where people all over the world get together whilst fundraising for Macmillan Cancer Support. In celebration of coffee mornings everywhere, in this Community News Blog we will be exploring the Community’s love of baking and getting together.

  Steph - Online Community Team over 2 years ago
• My journey with Bladder Cancer

  Update: Week 12: The Chemo cycle 2 complete - 50% of the total treatment complete!

  This week is treatment free, and the focus is getting the body on track for blood tests on Monday to see if cycle 3 can be started. The Filgrastim injections came with a massive bite last week. Late Saturday afternoon I had taken a nap, when I wo...

  kaspont over 3 years ago
• I don't want to be an orphan ..........

  Chemo eve

  So tomorrow is the day my mum starts her chemo .......im scared what it's gonna cause  My mum has decided to give chemo a try and we start tomorrow 3pm that's when the war starts against the big c  The orphan references the fact tha...

  orphan reds over 3 years ago