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• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 14 hours ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b

  W J 15 hours ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 2 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 2 days ago
• Multiple Myeloma

  Tess123 8 days ago
• Mumofcancer

  Mumofcancer 15 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 16 days ago
• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

  Emotions 17 days ago
• Warm your teaspoon

  Mrs of husband with bowel cancer - T3 N1 - chemo to be followed by radio then anterior bowel - depending what they find. Oxaliplatin and Capecitabine being the prescribed drugs. `

  Sierraoscar 18 days ago
• Pete's cancer blog

  Peterb 23 days ago

Latest blog posts

• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b

  Shingles

  March 2025. Well my immunity being low with chemo has finally been hit by a virus. Shingles. I had to cancel my original op where I had a blocked kidney (now that’s pain). After the op I’ve been fortunate with all the germs and not had mu...

  W J over 1 year ago
• My Hodgkin's story

  ''I still don't look the same''

  This is what I told my girlfriend last week while I was scrolling through some of the pictures we took. We went on holidays to the Canary Islands, so obvs loads of sun, warm days and nice scenery. I rarely upload pictures of myself on social med...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago
• Each day at a time

  The first day I ever felt true heartbreak

  I’ve never been one for writing anything but here goes … We are just an ordinary family from East Midlands area who spent life growing up in a mining village . My dad used to work in our local mine before he got made redundant from the p...

  Blue91 over 1 year ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  Continued remission

  The scores on the doors are 38 months since my mammogram recall, 30 months since being diagnosed as an ‘incurable’ with liver mets, 18 months since my last systemic treatment (when I had to stop immunotherapy), 1 year since my last i...

  Coddfish over 1 year ago
• Words, Pathways, Journeys

  Moving Onwards

  I’ve hardly written anything these last few weeks. My life, all of a sudden, has felt like it has started to right itself around me, to get back onto an even keel. Finishing my chemotherapy has opened everything back up, all those things which ...

  Writing Lola over 1 year ago
• Welcome home

  A funny old week

  I'm finding it quite difficult to start writing today. It's been such a strange week and I'm at a bit of a loss to work it out. At the end of last week we had a mortgage application made and were waiting on an MRI appt. It was a beautiful...

  Lizig over 1 year ago
• Grant’s prostrate cancer Chemo blog

  A final update!

  I thought it was high time I finished the blog off! So here goes. Cycle 6 was pretty uneventful. The tiredness definitely continued for the 3 weeks post cycle 6. I got those scan results back and it was wonderful news! At the outset of my j...

  Grantyo12 over 1 year ago
• 

  One Life Live It

  So I didn't break a bone!

  It wasn't what I expected when attending a work conference. We were doing a short after lunch energiser, which involved competing with other teams to gather as many balloons as we could. I'm bending down to pick up (ok steal from another team...

  Irishgirl16 over 1 year ago
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  Me, Myself and Cancer: Helping you live well every day

  Pleased to meet you...

  Latest statistics show that there are more than 3 million people living with cancer in the UK and that, on average, someone is diagnosed with cancer at least every 90 seconds... and yet, I never thought that it would happen to me. I was 42 years old....

  MeMyselfandCancer over 1 year ago
• The Jellybean Journey

  The Beginning Jan 2025

  I wanted to share my journey so far. At the beginning of Dec 2024 I noticed a scratch on the back of my throat. I thought I might have caught a crisp or piece of toast on it. Over the new year I looked in the mirror again and could visibly see what I...

  Lindielou over 1 year ago