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

  Mr U 8 hours ago
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• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 4 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 10 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 25 days ago

Latest blog posts

• Breast Cancer - mammoplasties

  Just starting my journey

  Diagnosed on 16th June 2023 Is there anyone out there waiting for op and having to decide between the following operations Take letrosole with radiotherapy lumpectomy with therapeutic mammoplasty and reduction mammoplasty Mastectomy

  Chisi over 3 years ago
• MM uncertainty

  July 2023 - getting experimental

  Now that the latest (third) round of radiotherapy is over we are at the point of choosing what treatment comes next. There will be lots of scans - but there is some readily visible progression, so we all know they will show his current treatment is n...

  motherofboys over 3 years ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  Hope

  The immunotherapy rash settled down quickly with the various pharmacy grade products, and I was cleared to have my fourth dose of Pembrolizumab on time. I have been busy telling my body to stick out the red carpets to invite the drug into zones 6 and...

  Coddfish over 3 years ago
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  Community News

  The importance of our pets during our cancer journey- Jane's story

  When having treatment, Jane tells us how her beloved cats supported her at home. If you are an animal lover, you may have worries about looking after them whilst you are not home. You are not alone as Jane tells us her story.

  Megan- Online Community Team over 3 years ago
• Journey so far with Prostate Cancer

  The start of it all 2001 until now 2023 My Journey

  My Father was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer roughly 2000 he had the warning signs but done nothing about it as he wanted to do a extra year at work to clear his debts by the time he made the decision to see the GP it was to late it had spread outsid...

  Tel64 over 3 years ago
• Travel insurance with Prostate

  travel insurance

  So someone here was asking about Travel Insurance. I am insured with staysure being reasonable impressed always had travel insurance as travel serval times a year. So have high cholesterol that the insurance were happy to ignore then when I had ...

  Tel64 over 3 years ago
• October 13th 2022

  Not getting easier

  Still feels so raw and miss hubby constantly. I still eel like he is going to walk through the door I will be going back to work soon which I am looking forward to, but working on a hospital ward will be hard. I need to get back in to a routine the...

  Confused2022 over 3 years ago
• My Triple Negative Cancer Journey

  Return of Triple Negative Breast cancer

  About a week after my CT and Bone scans I got a phone call from my breast care nurse to say my scans were clear but they noticed a change in my scar tissue on my left breast from when I had surgery in March 2021 so they wanted me to have an ultrasoun...

  Daisy53 over 3 years ago
• Being a brother..

  One month in

  It has been nearly a month since my big sis was told she is terminal.  The almost unbearable pain I am feeling has crippled me in a few ways. A week ago I walked out of work and went on sick leave, partly because I wasn't coping and partly b...

  Sullutac over 3 years ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  Immunotherapy adverse event

  I have now had 3 doses of pembrolizumab and 9 of NAB-Paclitaxel. We went away for the weekend and had a number of treats, including spending Sunday afternoon at the London athletics event. We weren’t directly in the sun, I was fairly well cover...

  Coddfish over 3 years ago