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• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception

  dolphin99 2 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 8 hours ago
• Wittering away...

  Rowan8a3264 11 hours 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.

  Matthew - Online Community Team 18 hours ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 19 hours ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Lemsip 6 days ago
• Peter's Blog

  A blog about bowel cancer at a young age

  HawkeyeBrown 8 days ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 9 days ago
• Kidney Not

  Mmum 9 days ago
• Looking after Mr. B

  Miranda t 14 days ago

Latest blog posts

• Finding a way to cope

  Hi all

  Hi,Last week we find out my mother has a few tumours on her bladder. They told us it is cancer but wouldn’t/couldn’t say anything else. We are waiting for results from the biopsy. I suffer with ASD and have never been any good at waiting ...

  Former Member over 3 years ago
• Chemo Diary

  13) PICC line Insertion & First Paclitaxel

  My first Pac couldn’t happen as my veins completely downed tools and went on strike! Chemo unit staff were great and got my picc line appt rearranged to the following morning which meant my chemo was delayed by only one day.  I am des...

  Meanegg over 3 years ago
• October 13th 2022

  Hospital appointment

  Hubby been for an appointment this morning to to see how things are since he was discharged from hospital with pneumonia, his urologist was surprised he was still here after how ill  he was, he’s a fighter x we know that the cancer has spr...

  Former Member over 3 years ago
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  Community News

  Supporting each other through dying, loss and bereavement: Linda’s story

  As part of Macmillan’s Digital Storytelling Project, Linda has created a video to share her experience supporting her mum through end of life and how she coped with loss and bereavement. Linda shares her experience setting up a charity to support people who are dying and their loved ones.

  Eliza -Online Community Team over 3 years ago
• Wasn't expecting this. But will fight it all the way.

  Laparoscopy results in and seen oncologist

  So we have the results T2N1M0 all being well as other medical problems it should be operable. Discussed plan with oncologist is FLOT 4 sessions over 8 weeks. Then after scans etc should be operation then another round of FLOT. so we can already forge...

  Deb62 over 3 years ago
• Chemo Diary

  12) Pre Paclitaxel check

  Am hunkering down for Paclitaxel which I am dreading somewhat!  Google has a lot to answer for and I know I should step away but I can’t help myself sometimes!!   Anyway consultant reassured me as much as anyone can that he is optimis...

  Meanegg over 3 years ago
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  Community News

  Coping with the last celebrations with your loved one

  A carer's experience on coping with the idea that this could be the last Christmas or last holiday season with her husband, who has been diagnosed with incurable cancer.

  Eliza -Online Community Team over 3 years ago
• Carried on Eagles' Wings

  Docetaxel-Phesgo – She was pretty spot on

  Another cycle ticked off, the fourth of seven, so we’re more than halfway through chemo! #5 tomorrow morning. For #4 I switched to a new cocktail of chemo and targeted therapy drugs and I’d been a bit apprehensive about possible adverse s...

  Amy123 over 3 years ago
• ZPN

  HPV vaccine

  Today I learnt that if you have the HPV vaccine, I might not be on this journey.

  Former Member over 3 years ago
• SEX, CANCER and ME

  No sex drive

  Hi everyone  I need help ! My boyfriend is on hormone therapy for prostate cancer since his 2nd injection his sex drive is ZERO. So much so that we don't have any sexual contact at all. He isn't even that interested in kissing.  I k...

  Former Member over 3 years ago