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Blogs

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Blogging can be a great way to journal your experiences and share with others. Why not create your own cancer journey blog, or have a read of other blogs created by our members?

Unsure how to get started? Take a look at our help pages on blogs. 

Macmillan Information Blogs
  • Random act of kindness
    Random act of kindness
    6 months ago
  • The Changing Faces of Cancer- Scalp cooling, Hair loss and Regrowth.
    The Changing Faces of Cancer- Scalp cooling, Hair loss and Regrowth.
    over 2 years ago
  • If I could go back to the day of my cancer diagnosis
    If I could go back to the day of my cancer diagnosis
    over 2 years ago

Latest blog updates

  • Cool Cap Relief
    TerryB 8 hours ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Mr U 20 hours ago
  • Living with Desdemona
    Desdemona 1 day ago
  • Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica
    Beesuit 2 days ago
  • One Step At A Time
    Phild26 2 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.
    Dylan - Online Community Team 4 days ago
  • WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted
    W J 5 days ago
  • Multiple Myeloma
    Tess123 14 days ago
  • Mumofcancer
    Mumofcancer 20 days ago
  • Cycle 19 and not working anymore
    Emotions 22 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • Community News
    Hair Loss - Information and Guidance

    Hair Loss - Information and Guidance

    Image: Landscape of Yorkshire moors with dark clouds sitting over a valley on a spring day.

    On the Community team we often ask for your input or feedback, we want to make sure we’re listening to our members. In a recent newsletter we asked for you to get in touch with the topics you would like to see us write about. In today’s Community News Blog, we’re talking about a topic you asked for - hair loss.

    We know from many of our members’ comments that hair loss can be difficult...

    Tom C - Online Community team over 5 years ago
  • One Life Live It
    Steroids, Sleepless Nights and Cycle 2
    Cycle 2 and the steroids the day before treatment are messing with my sleep.  I am tired, my eyes are tired, my head is tired but my body is clearly disconnected and is buzzing!  It was 3 am and I could feel every sensation in my bones...
    Irishgirl16 over 5 years ago
  • DavidG66
    CT scan booked - update 14 April
    CT scan booked for Friday morning so will discover the effectiveness of the chemo earlier than I thought. I was told my scan would likely be about 4 weeks after chemo#4 but this is just 1 week. Case conference the following Wednesday and then get som...
    DavidG66 over 5 years ago
  • Community News
    Community guidelines update – sharing medical pictures

    'Community guidelines update' written in white over a picture of a sunset over the sea.

    Please note that this blog is no longer up-to-date. To see the most recent review of the Community guidelines, please see our more recent blog here.

    We have some important information to share here on the Online Community. We have decided to trial updating part of the Community guidelines around medical images.

    Our Community guidelines are what everyone agrees to when they join the Online Community. They’re in place to ensure that everyone is safe while using the site. Previously, our guidelines...

    Eliza -Online Community Team over 5 years ago
  • Draw
    Pre Op check
    I never imagined it would be so complicated. I thought they would just remove the breast and that would be that. My brain is spinning after this chat with the breast care nurse. She said I would be in overnight and would come out with a drain in plac...
    Former Member over 5 years ago
  • Finding out I have the MSH2 pathogenic variant gene
    MSH2 gene at 22 years old
    Hi ‍ ..  I lost my Daddy back in 2017 I was 18 years old he had bowel cancer from his early 20s got his bowel removed and had a stoma, then was diagnosed with other cancers until he lost his life at 45 years old . shortly after it was sugge...
    Former Member over 5 years ago
  • Second time around. Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma
    Deja Vu
    1997-2020 In July 1997 I came home to Cornwall after a trip to Southampton to see my children and celebrate my son’s 21st birthday.  I was unwell with a sore throat and temperature.   3 weeks later, I was admitted to hospital wi...
    Former Member over 5 years ago
  • Breast Cancer - 1 yr on. Then and now!
    I found a lump!
    Ok......so, never done this before but then, there's been alot of stuff in the past year that I've done for the first time - so hey, here we go.  Hmmm.... learn to do 'blogging'! Yesterday, as well as being the day we all finall...
    Former Member over 5 years ago
  • Cancer……and how we dealt with my husband and I being diagnosed in the same month
    Grab a cuppa, it's a bit of a long story!
    So, 2019 was to be my year, I had so many things planned for my 50th birthday in August; gigs, trips abroad, west end theatre and basically having a complete ball. Some things I managed to do but most were cancelled. Why……. well, my hus...
    Drivermason over 5 years ago
  • DavidG66
    Update 9 April
    Chemo update: this is my last session for a while. The side effects this past week have not been nice. Apart from an odd rash on my hand, and, I've discovered, under my dressing, my mouth has felt as though I've gargled with boiling water. Re...
    DavidG66 over 5 years ago
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