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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. 

Latest blog updates

  • "It's Only Skin Cancer"
    A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception
    dolphin99 3 hours ago
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    Mr U 5 hours ago
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    Rowan8a3264 13 hours ago
  • Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer
    Lemsip 22 hours ago
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    A blog about bowel cancer at a young age
    HawkeyeBrown 2 days ago
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  • 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

  • robynn
    Yeah I did it

    MRI=0, Me=1

    Round two went to me. Did my mri with hardly any fuss at all.

    Yeah!

    Think I deserve a nice big glass of red wine to celebrate

     

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • rocky195
    round two

    going to hospital for my second round of chemo. only got one more after this then its radio. good tip if you are starting chemo take an ipod with you and watch films or listen to music.it passes the time nicely and dont forget your earphones!

     

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • DAFFIE's blog
    Collateral Damage
    Here we go again. Suitcases at the ready, piles of neatly folded clothes. But this time we are travelling for pleasure. A last minute booking for a weekend in a country hotel on the edge of Sherwood Forest. That’s what the brochure says, the reality is more like a holiday camp for grown ups. But who cares we are getting away!!!!!! And this time it is for pleasure. A two-hour drive, no hanging around airports just get in the car, drive, and we will be there. It’s awhile since I had occasion...
    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • How to Help your Mum Survive Pancreatic Cancer or Not
    The first oncologist appointment

    This morning my parents visited an oncologist who suggested a plan of how to proceed. On friday she will have a minor operation to place a stent that will stop her from becoming jaundice. After resting for a week she will begin a course of chemotherapy which will consist of 3 mondays of treatment and then a week off, repeated for three months.

    This chemo wont be too aggressive so she shouldn't lose any hair or anything like that. From what I have read it seems that everyone reacts differently to...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • feeling low
    it cant be

    how can it? .. when i think about the fact that i will never see my mum again? .. im only 20 .. this isnt right! i need her now more than ever! i miss her at home! i missed txtng her the other day to let her know i passed my exams! everyone else got to tell their mums! i have no one now!

    i just want her back so much!

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • robynn
    One week down.....

    Well it has been exactly one week since I was diagnosed.

    What a week is all can say. Been pretty traumatic, so many emotions in such a short time period. I am just totally exhausted physically and mentally. In saying that though today Im starting to feel as if I might, and I say might, just be able to cope with this. Think my mini meltdown yesterday actually has really helped and I can start to come to terms with this and focus on fighting. At least for today anyway.

    Just got to conquer that...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • How to Help your Mum Survive Pancreatic Cancer or Not
    A week after diagnosis

    On friday the 19th I was told that my mums pancreatic cancer had spread to her lungs and that from now on any care that she received would be palliative.

    For a couple of hours I did not react but merely asked questions, " Can they not do chemo?"/ "Cant they cut them out" It took me a great length of time to realise that this was a death sentence for my mother.

    I immediately began research online and was greeted with horrid statistics for pancreatic cancer that was operable...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • jujuc
    Help Please Liver Function test abnormal

    Hi to all on here, I send everyone my love.

    I was wondering if anyone can help me. I am at present having chemo no 8.

    My last 2 liver function tests were low. So my onc wanted me to take a week off or take a reduction in dose.

    I chose the latter, so I was given a reduced dose by 25%

    I couldn't afford to lose another week, I lost 2 at New year and I have a deadline to aim for. I need my stoma reversal done before July as I am going to a wedding in Zante in September.

    Has this happened to anybody...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Bren
    The Legacy of Hope
    Today is this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day, marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The theme for this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day is The Legacy of Hope, something many of us will or have felt. I visited these two camps during a trip to Poland in 2001 and stood in the guard tower in Birkenau that you can see here and took a photograph of the scene picture below from the opposite view (not this actual photograph - mine was taken with a panoramic lens) and I have...
    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • pinkvicki
    Has anyone had raised AFP levels with Lung cancer???

    Has anyone ever ever experienced this even if they were only raised slightly i would just love to know what your oncologist said about it.

    Many Many Thanks

    Hope you are all staying strong

    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    Former Member over 16 years ago
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