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• 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.

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• Multiple Myeloma

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• One Step At A Time

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• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

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• 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. `

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• Pete's cancer blog

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Latest blog posts

• My Journey on Paclitaxel

  Tuesday 7th May 12days post final Paclitaxel & 1st appointment with Radiotherapist

  I have been doing really good since my last post. I have bumfluff on my head and a couple tiny signs of eyelashes coming back. My weigh isn't really changing yet, but hopefully it will start to come off a bit soon. Today I had my first appointmen...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
• Some Mistake ?

  Private Eyebrows

  There is a lot of changes that come with paclitaxel. I was fascinated rather than alarmed by my hair loss. Cells connected with hair growth are highly active. It is the highly active cells like the cancer cells that the paclitaxel targets. It chucks ...

  Optimus over 2 years ago
• Protein

  Protein - lack of

  Hi, new here but really reaching out for help and suggestions. My sister has oesophagal cancer, diagnosed and having treatment for over a year, it has been stop start and two different types of treatment, the cancer levels are now coming down and the...

  Jojie over 2 years ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b

  2-5-24 MRI

  My bloods are ok for another chemo dose. The platelets had shot up from 50 to 130. So must have eaten something right (spotless most likely). I’ll start it on Monday so I can have a weekend off. The doctor said I didn’t have to take the l...

  W J over 2 years ago
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  Community News

  Breaking the news

  Do you need help telling your family and friends about your cancer diagnosis? Read this blog for some friendly advice from those who have been there, it may help you break the news.

  Megan- Online Community Team over 2 years ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  Adrenal insufficiency?

  Seven and a half months of prednisolone and still going. I had been warned the latter stages were the hard bit. At the beginning, on very high dosage, when I felt continually jittery and couldn’t sleep or taste anything, that was hard to imagin...

  Coddfish over 2 years ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  Rollin' Like Thunder...

  It’s been nearly a year since I was last up writing before dawn; way back in a different epoch, ‘The Waiting Game’ described a sleepless night and seeing in the very early June dawn on Minehead seafront. Twenty plus entries and 11 m...

  Dignahtee over 2 years ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b

  1-5-2024 germs

  After two rounds of anti biotics. And act to check my lungs. Ask seems ok. Must have given a point of blood. And cannulas are a pain. MRI tomorrow. Don’t know why I do this blog as no seems to read it

  W J over 2 years ago
• My Journey on Paclitaxel

  Wednesday 1st May 6th day post Final Paclitaxel Chemo

  Well the last few days I have been very shattered. I've managed to stay up with hubby though, and not slopped off to bed after having dinner. The feelings I have had are more like a bad case of flu, with aches and not being able to do very much. ...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  In Dawn’s Cold Light

  I am a morning person, at least I am now that I am a bit older and my hell raising youth* is becoming a distant memory. I love the early morning, especially at this time of year and I have sat in the garden today as a chunk of moon was gently replace...

  Dignahtee over 2 years ago