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• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception

  dolphin99 5 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 6 hours ago
• Wittering away...

  Rowan8a3264 14 hours ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Lemsip 23 hours ago
• Peter's Blog

  A blog about bowel cancer at a young age

  HawkeyeBrown 2 days ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 3 days ago
• Kidney Not

  Mmum 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 8 days ago
• Looking after Mr. B

  Miranda t 8 days ago
• One Life Live It

  Sadly not a LandRover road trip, but my journey through breast cancer

  Irishgirl16 9 days ago

Latest blog posts

• The Long Journey...

  I'm reeling and I want to rant... #1

  Four weeks ago my girl friend and I were talking to one another about the fact that maybe, after lots of really bad stuff happening to us in our lives so far, we were getting an opportunity for some happiness together with someone who really understo...

  BoyfriendWiltshire 2 months ago
• One Step At A Time

  Chapter 24 — Phil M. RIP.

  I’ve been in hospital for a month today. I didn’t plan to mark it with anything. There’s no milestone worth celebrating at four weeks — no trophy, no certificate, no moment where someone comes in and says well done, you’...

  Phild26 2 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 467: I’m apologetic to my watch, but it doesn’t help.

  Post 467: I’m apologetic to my watch, but it doesn’t help. There are a few things bothering me right now, but I think I’m just being over-sensitive, as per bloomin’ usual. When you wake up before you really ought to, there&r...

  Mr U 2 months ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Chemo Fourth Cycle, Week Two: Desdemona Makes Me Breathless

  Well, this week’s been interesting. My tiredness continued to abate over the weekend, but then the anaemia kicked in. For me, the anaemia manifests itself quite differently from the fatigue and tiredness. Generally, I feel quite fine, then I&rs...

  Desdemona 2 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 466: Steroids and pubs increasing the belly bump.

  Post 466: Steroids and pubs increasing the belly bump. I was so worried about losing weight a couple of months ago. It was falling off me so quickly that I couldn’t find enough to eat. Now I seem to eat continually, and before long I’ll p...

  Mr U 2 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 465: Beer, food and natter at The Bells.

  Post 465: Beer, food and natter at The Bells. With all the plans laid for a little surprise for a fellow prostate warrior later today, I first had to dress my wounds. Last night Mr Vicious was happily sitting on my lap while I wore my shorts, and eve...

  Mr U 2 months ago
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  Community News

  "Macmillan’s community becomes my lifeline as in my own community, cancer is still a taboo" -Renita's story

  Renita, known as RMD in the Online Community, was diagnosed with invasive multifocal ductal and lobular breast cancer at 48. In this blog, she shares her diagnosis story, the challenges of treatment, and how the Macmillan Online Community became a source of support, hope and reassurance when she needed it most.

  Cancer was not on my radar until my mum found a lump. In May 2025, during my morning call to my family in India, my sister says, “Now don’t panic but…”

  “What’s happened...

  Megan- Online Community Team 2 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 464: The rain came, but not for long.

  Post 464: The rain came, but not for long. Firstly, can I say how amazing it was to hear all your replies yesterday. I don’t read them until very late at night and, after another surprisingly emotional day, they gave me such a boost. Whether ...

  Mr U 2 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 463: The rain needs to hurry up and drop in France and Spain.

  Post 463: The rain needs to hurry up and drop in France and Spain. With our southern weather set to ramp up next week, any Holibobs to our wonderful county will see plenty of scorched grass and plenty of reasons to sit in the shade of the old chestn...

  Mr U 2 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 462: Fresh Fish Friday.

  Post 462: Fresh Fish Friday. The now usual stroll down to the fresh fish aisle, past the fresh vegetables, fruit and deli, was once upon a time a sprint, but now it’s a wallow into Friday night supper. The slightly smoked salmon was what I had...

  Mr U 2 months ago