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• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

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

  Mr U 17 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

  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

• My journey with Mr Peahead

  The introduction of Mr Peahead

  Mr Peahead was identified in January 2025 following a colonoscopy after experiencing rectal bleeding and subsequently having a positive FIT test. This intruder is aptly named as when they were taking a biopsy of the tumour there was a solitary pea le...

  Wenglish over 1 year ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 25: My Darling.

  Post 25: My Darling. As I wander through the maze of worry on the forum, I realise I’m the luckiest man alive. I still feel ill-equipped to reply to many of my fellow travellers—lacking experience and expertise—but I empathise and...

  Mr U over 1 year ago
• Still enjoying life with cancer

  Diagnosis of metastatic melanoma

  It took a while to get to this point. 16 years ago I had a mole removed from my left eyebrow after I sensed some irritation and it began flaking. My GP sent me to get it removed. My wife took a phone call a month later from the hospital to say that I...

  Slartybartfast over 1 year ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 24: Downgrading the word, Massive.

  Post 24: Downgrading the word, Massive. Vital statistics: Temp: I’m ok but it’s boiling outside BP: 116/77/50  Weight: 11st 7lbs (or 73kgs) Hair: Spiked up like a hedgehog. Anything else? Sis for lunch —— Sometimes, ...

  Mr U over 1 year ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 23: Miss you, Mum.

  Post 23: Miss you, Mum. Vital statistics: Temp: perfect 36.1  BP: 117/78/49 Weight: too much chocolate  Hair: in a mess Anything else? Reflective and emotional  — After yawning and hearing the birdsong from the bedroom win...

  Mr U over 1 year ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 22: Head in a Spin.

  Post 22: Head in a Spin. Vital statistics: Temp: 36.1  BP: 119/80/56 Weight: back on the Laxido Hair: no change  Anything else? Anxious ⸻ I need time to tie all the loose threads of the last seven days into a secure knot. But how? I&r...

  Mr U over 1 year ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 21: Good Juju.

  Post 21: Good Juju. Vital statistics: Temp: perfect BP: 108/76/104 (AFib) Weight: I’ve a wasplike belly  Hair: Looking good  Anything else? Get it together, Mr U. I’ve dealt with the first job of the day satisfactorily &mdas...

  Mr U over 1 year ago
• My Hodgkin's story

  Appointment - Useless? Does it have to be useful?

  So today was my 3-month appointment. It looks like I've moved into the B-team of lymphoma patients and from now on appointments will be every four months instead of three.  Met a different doctor today who I never met before, not sure if this is...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago
• What the ecky fump?

  The latest

  So. EC-T and a portacath to be arranged. Tests to do and mid May will see the start of apparently a 10 year treatment.... I knew it wouldn't be a quick 3/4 months like my 1st go round but TEN YEARS ? Drugs -  EPIRUBICIN & CYCLOPHOSPHAMID...

  JH70 over 1 year ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  Hips

  It seems odd to be posting about a hip replacement on a cancer blog, but I guess many of us have a cross over of conditions.  My first slight awareness of hip problems was about three years after the birth of my first child back in the early 90s...

  Coddfish over 1 year ago