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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?

Community News Blogs

  • An update to our Online Community email notifications
    6 days ago
  • Feeling the heat? Here are some tips to help you stay cool
    over 2 years ago
  • We're here for you: Find cancer support services near you
    13 days ago
  • Recognising shared support on the Online Community - Special Contributions, Guest Bloggers and Community Champions
    28 days ago

Recent Blogs

  • A rollercoaster ride you never want to be on. There is no way off it.

    Lung Cancer, the shock, the heartache, the never knowing. The long slow painful road of hope and despair. The tears and more tears its never ending
    1 post
    FormerMember
    A rollercoaster ride you never want to be on. There is no way off it. over 8 years ago
  • Mums the word

    Tumour Cancer treatment
    14 posts
    FormerMember
    Hope over 8 years ago
  • Oh, so NOW you want to write about it?

    Navigating widowhood (a word that doesn't look right when applied to me), one rant at a time.
    6 posts
    FormerMember
    The power of the gesture over 8 years ago
  • Thyroid nodules

    U2 benign thyroid nodules
    1 post
    FormerMember
    Auto immune thyroid disease /benign u2 nodule thyroid over 8 years ago
  • Day 1 for dad's treatment

    My dad's journey
    1 post
    FormerMember
    Day 1 of dads treatment over 8 years ago
  • What the F was that?!

    I was a busy career woman with an 18 month old daughter when I was diagnosed with Stage 3, HER2+ and ER+ breast cancer in 2013, aged 29. Everyone's experience of cancer is a personal one. This is mine.
    2 posts
    FormerMember
    Chapter 1 over 8 years ago
  • A Titful Wonder in the Middle of Nowhere

    A blog about having breast cancer as a single, childless, unemployed woman of 47, recently moved to a tiny, isolated rural Scottish Borders community, with an amazing network of lovely family and friends but 1-24 hours' drive/rail journey/flight away
    23 posts
    FormerMember
    The Main Event - mastectomy and reconstruction surgery, in parts over 8 years ago
  • Nowhere to turn

    My husband was diagnosed 3 yrs ago at 51 and refused all treatment even though it was curable at the time.
    1 post
    FormerMember
    First Blog over 8 years ago
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