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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 non-deleted

  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

• My esophageal journey.

  Well, here I am!?!? ¿

  What an extraordinary few months. Back in March, was the horrible diagnosis of an esophageal tumor, that was inoperable and I needed........ The blur starts.... Looking at my partner, my heart broke, she doesn't need this. My daughter.... Oh god....

  WelshMan over 3 years ago
• MM uncertainty

  Aug 2023 - end of treatment

  After a full set of scan - PET, MRI head+neck, Brain MRI we finally had that meeting with the consultant. We've tried everything and it's not worked. There were no tears initially, we could see the new lumps that told us treatment was not wor...

  motherofboys over 3 years ago
• Candid with Cancer

  Candid with Cancer #1

  Where to start really? No one can teach you how to circumnavigate cancer. You can read, read and read but at the end of the day, all you can do is experience it and learn. A unique experience unique to everyone, no two stories the same. I need to wri...

  Tashley99 over 3 years ago
• Up up up

  Maybe its just me....

  So 2 weeks to this day I was diagnosed with bowel cancer. In the rectum to be exact literally a right pain in the ass. As a 3cm polyp was removed I thought yey the pain in my ass has finally been taken out but no it still a right pain. So I knew when...

  DTel over 3 years ago
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  Community News

  Living with Lymphoma- Yamour's shares her story with her mother Isaf.

  Yamour and her mum, Isaf, talk in their Mother Tongue Turkish, about some of the issues and cultural stigmas they encountered when Yamour was diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma when she was aged 21.

  Megan- Online Community Team over 3 years ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  Planning for the future

  When I got confirmation in April that the secondary cancer in my liver was definitely back, I made an appointment with my solicitor to review and update my will, and also completed the forms to set up lasting power of attorney for my husband, son and...

  Coddfish over 3 years ago
• How do you recover from a bereavement if you have little support?

  How do you get over bereavement if you have little or no support

  My wife died from complications of Mestatic Breast Cancer 2 weeks ago. Cancer spread after a 9 year battle and things ended in a bad way. We'd been together for 21 years and got through the isolation of Covid, but late 2022 and this year it sprea...

  FORSYB over 3 years ago
• But I can’t have breast cancer, there’s nothing wrong with me!

  Oh FFS!

  “So I’m just going to have another look at this area here” this one sentence interrupted my monologue on school holidays, work drama and the price of food and gave me pause to ask “oh? Why is something wrong?” The ensuin...

  Kfletch over 3 years ago
• But I can’t have breast cancer, there’s nothing wrong with me!

  One stop boob shop

  “Please attend the breast care clinic on the 28/7/23 at 8:30 am following referral from your GP” First thought “why is it so hot in here?” Second thought, “glad I came alone looks like I may be in for a bit of a wait&hel...

  Kfletch over 3 years ago
• But I can’t have breast cancer, there’s nothing wrong with me!

  “Get your tits out”

  Fast forward to my breast check up appointment…. I sat in the waiting room with no anxiety or concern still convinced that I would be sent away with a clean bill of health and a commendation for checking my breasts regularly (something I was w...

  Kfletch over 3 years ago