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• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception

  dolphin99 8 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 16 hours ago
• Wittering away...

  Rowan8a3264 18 hours ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Lemsip 2 days ago
• Peter's Blog

  A blog about bowel cancer at a young age

  HawkeyeBrown 3 days ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 4 days ago
• Kidney Not

  Mmum 4 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 10 days ago
• Looking after Mr. B

  Miranda t 10 days ago
• One Life Live It

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

  Irishgirl16 10 days ago

Latest blog posts

• Dandy

  Target Therapy

  On my second round of sinitulib target therapy, the side effects sometimes make me very tired and lethargic. My moods are very up and down, sometimes I carry on and want to enjoy life other times I'm in bed all day. Not sure how long this will go...

  Dandylion over 2 years ago
• A carers blog

  Brain fog

  There’s nothing like a dose of chemotherapy coupled with sleepless nights to bring on a rampant case of brain fog in my experience. Even the relatively mild treatment for solar keratosis seemed to turn my husband’s brain to mush. This, al...

  Jdet over 2 years ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  Step down slowly

  Today was my 3-weekly oncology review and crunch time on whether I can finally come off the steroids. I haven’t been feeling good for the last few weeks. Aches. Stiffness. Headaches. Feeling tired and listless. Sometimes feeling slightly queasy...

  Coddfish over 2 years ago
• A carers blog

  Mood swings

  Quite a lot of posts on this site mention mood swings and uncharacteristic aggression amongst cancer sufferers. I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday whose husband also has cancer and she was telling me about he gets really quite angry with her...

  Jdet over 2 years ago
• Upcoming hysterectomy

  Upcoming hysterectomy

  Hi  I havnt written here before but have read a lot of your blogs i am 68 and after a bout of Covid at Christmas I had a bleed was not able to see a dr until mid January due to the Covid and he referred me to a gynocologist … I was not ex...

  Larfer over 2 years ago
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  Community News

  Writing for healing

  Have you thought about diarising your personal experiences? Lots of people find it helpful to diarise their own experiences, either by setting up a personal blog on the Online Community or by using a pen and paper. In this blog we will help you set up your own blog and share information about the benefits of diarising your experiences.

  Megan- Online Community Team over 2 years ago
• A carers blog

  Keeping a sense of humour

  Is it possible to keep a sense of humour when your husband has had his bladder, lymph glands, urethra and prostate removed, has been declared clear from cancer only to be told six months later that the cancer is probably back?  I think my husban...

  Jdet over 2 years ago
• My Journey on Paclitaxel

  Wednesday 15th May Radiotherapy planning appointment

  Since my last post, I have been continuing to feel quite good. I have had a couple days where I felt a bit low. This was mainly from thinking of the people who said they would visit and still haven't after over 4 months. It's like people thin...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  Smelling the Roses

  I was at the gym a week or so back and a couple of other old blokes were bemoaning various wrongs. One of them asked me if I complained about everything too? It may be a right or expectation to become more reactionary as we get older, and I don&rsquo...

  Dignahtee over 2 years ago
• Dealing with the "other stuff" when you have cancer!

  All the "other stuff" that comes with a cancer diagnosis....

  I was diagnosed in October 2023 with breast cancer.  I was in the UK at the time.  I moved back home - South Africa - so I could have family around to help and support me.  Since then, January 2024 I had a lumpectomy and axilla dissect...

  Peanut1205 over 2 years ago