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• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 9 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 11 hours ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Beesuit 1 day ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 1 day 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 3 days ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted

  W J 4 days ago
• Multiple Myeloma

  Tess123 13 days ago
• Mumofcancer

  Mumofcancer 19 days ago
• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

  Emotions 21 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 23 days ago

Latest blog posts

• My Hodgkin's story

  The start of chemo - getting to know the E, A, C, P and Dac in BEACOPDac

  This is about the first few days of chemo. I will try to be very detailed and a bit explicit with some stuff. Before I got chemo I didn’t want to read or know anything about what the expect, so if you are reading this and think the same way, pr...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago
• Sid The Stoma

  Welcoming Sid The Stoma

  So my journey started way back in the early months of 2023 when I started loosing blood in my stools and on exploration the hospital discovered I had a polyp in my bowel, this was swiftly removed and all confirmed as benign. However bleeding continue...

  Char Cad over 1 year ago
• My Hodgkin's story

  The days leading up to the start of chemo...

  So, this entry is about the days leading to the start of the chemo. I am writing the entries in a very casual way just as thoughts come through. It must be a bit annoying to read but I think this is the best way I can fully express what was going thr...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago
• My Hodgkin's story

  How did it all start

  Coming to terms with writing the story of my diagnosis and treatment has taken some time. Some days you really want to sit down and write it, other days you just want to forget everything and kick the ball forward. Without making this too personal, I...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago
• agressive recurring cancer

  recurrent cancer

  Hi, I have had aggresive stage 3 breast cancer 6 times now including lymph nodes and pectoral muscle. On pension credit and would like to know if entiled to any benefits as well though resonably well i am definatly slowing down and my walk has change...

  laid back over 1 year ago
• Joining the (ovarian) cancer club

  Hit by a train, run over by a bus

  I hadn't felt right physically for around a month. I'm a 58 year old nursery teacher who is always busy outside of work too. I have a fantastic husband and 2 amazing daughters who I am very close to and we spend lots of time together. My elde...

  Ritaginger over 1 year ago
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  Community News

  Hair care, hair loss and styling tips from the Community

  Hair care, hair loss and styling tips from the Community

  Megan- Online Community Team over 1 year ago
• Cervical cancer 2a2 adenocarcinoma im 38

  Intro, smear, colscopy and doagnosis

  Hello my name is Mel, I am 38 years old, single, work in mental health. in oct 2023 I hadnt found my person, i always wanted children and for about 2 years had been working to get a house, stable job and car secretly to try and get ready. In Nov 2023...

  Mcdb over 1 year ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  To die or to 'assisted' die?

  That is the question or will be this week for our elected representatives. I now fall squarely into the category of people that the proposed legislation is intended to apply to. Two weeks ago my palliative chemotherapy was stopped. The drugs did not ...

  Dignahtee over 1 year ago
• Kidney Not

  Three Years On. 24-Nov-2024

  3 years on and I’m still here!  I have passed the first significant immunotherapy milestone which is 2 years of treatment.  I am no longer on treatment – just watch and wait scans.  My last scan in July 2024 was 23mm. ...

  Mmum over 1 year ago