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• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Lemsip 8 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 18 hours ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception

  dolphin99 1 day ago
• Peter's Blog

  A blog about bowel cancer at a young age

  HawkeyeBrown 1 day ago
• Wittering away...

  Rowan8a3264 1 day ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 2 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

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• One Life Live It

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

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Latest blog posts

• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Post Treatment Follow Up Trial PETNECK2

  May 27 2021 Research Question: Does PETCT-guided, patient-initiated follow-up result in similar overall survival compared to current post-treatment routine surveillance for head and neck cancer (HNC) patients? International guidelines recommend r...

  Beesuit 24 days ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Lymphoedema

  February 2 2021 I have been chatting to a friend on the Macmillan forum about coping with lymphoedema. This unpleasant swelling occurs when lymph drainage is damaged by either radiotherapy or surgery. It can vary between a mild inconvenience to a pai...

  Beesuit 24 days ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Two Year Anniversary

  January 23 2021 Today has been a day of contrasts. A bit like the last two years; not much to say except to leave a few snaps MORNING community.macmillan.org.uk/.../Dani-vid.mp4 AFTERNOON I thought I’d simply paste the post I put&nbs...

  Beesuit 24 days ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  The future of follow up

  January 17 2021 As I hadn’t had a nasoendoscopic exam for 8 months I asked that my next appointment wasn’t over the phone and was a F2F. I was looking for that reassurance even though I felt well. Dr Banner and I talked about follow up. I...

  Beesuit 24 days ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  A quick review of the year

  Jan 4 2021 A Snapshot Light at the end of the tunnel? I’ve seen a few lights already. Some of them have been oncoming trains BUT After Lockdown we got away a few times. Still enjoying a beer Then out of the blue came...

  Beesuit 24 days ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  Living life as a statistical outlier with metastatic tnbc

  I have just been for my 6-monthly oncology review following my most recent CT scan. The ablated tumour sites remain stable with no new metastatic disease noticed elsewhere. Nothing of concern in the blood screen. So I remain in the state of being inc...

  Coddfish 24 days ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 516: Lymphoma therapy day 12, done and dusted.

  Post 516: Lymphoma therapy day 12, done and dusted. So the feast and famine of constipation and diarrhoea has turned full circle again and I’m left with a big protruding belly and an uncomfortable feeling of fullness, but I can’t stop ea...

  Mr U 24 days ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 515: Too much for me at the writing club.

  Post 515: Too much for me at the writing club. A new printing cartridge and a new folder had me busy making an other 50 hard copies of the blog: binder 6, blogs 250-299. I’m getting there as I’m over half way through and I’m happy...

  Mr U 25 days ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 514: Two kids a dog and a bump.

  Post 514: Two kids a dog and a bump. I couldn’t carry on with my office work at home this morning for two reasons and the best reason was that I wanted to rest. It’s something when you actually want to do something but a health problem s...

  Mr U 26 days ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 513: A return to a little home-work and a salmon supper.

  Post 513: A return to a little home-work and a salmon supper. Starting at the end and not the start I had a great time with som U3a homework set for everyone’s entertainment; this week it was the creative writing group asking for a short story...

  Mr U 27 days ago