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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.

  Dylan - Online Community Team 7 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 16 hours ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted

  W J 1 day ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 4 days ago
• Multiple Myeloma

  Tess123 10 days ago
• Mumofcancer

  Mumofcancer 17 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 18 days ago
• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

  Emotions 19 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 20 days ago
• Pete's cancer blog

  Peterb 25 days ago

Latest blog posts

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  Community News

  Music speaks – how music can help us get through difficult days

  Community member and Macmillan volunteer Wee Me talks about how music helps her through.

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

  Serious adverse immunotherapy event - the A&E story

  As a companion to my blog entry on what happened to me clinically, this is the story of how it unfolded as a hospital experience. This bit focuses on night 1 in A&E. At my hospital, oncology patients have a dedicated hotline, and there is an acut...

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

  My serious immunotherapy related adverse event

  As a quick recap, I have PD-L1 positive, triple negative breast cancer, metastasised to my liver. I have been being treated with an immunotherapy drug called Pembrolizumab. In layman’s terms, our immune systems have an ability to deal with cell...

  Coddfish over 2 years ago
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  Community News

  Life One Year Later- Jane’s story

  Jane recently shared her ‘Importance of pets during our cancer journey’ blog and is back as a guest blogger to share her reflections on her Endometrial cancer experiences one year later. She talks about some of the lasting effects from her chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments and also about dealing with the fear of recurrence. Jane also talks about how she recognises the positive changes on her life and talks about her volunteering role as a Community Champion.

  Megan- Online Community Team over 2 years ago
• Candid with Cancer

  Candid with Cancer #4

  The chemotherapy started on Saturday 14th February. There is not a way to describe it really. Apart from impending doom. Or a ticking time bomb until it took effect and you’d feel all of it. I think over the 5 to 6 months I was in hospital, I h...

  Tashley99 over 2 years ago
• Candid with Cancer

  Candid with Cancer #3

  After being diagnosed, a plan of action was being put into place which would change my life in a heartbeat, for the rest of my life. And I know it’s hard to see the positives but I hoped one day it will be for the better. Though I wasn’t ...

  Tashley99 over 2 years ago
• My journey with Bladder Cancer

  Update Week 15: Chemo 75% Complete - The lull before the storm?

  So this week has been a non-treatment week. A week to rebuild the strength and get the energy levels back up to face the 4th and final chemo cycle. There have been some side effects to deal with; both armpits erupted with rashes very similar to a...

  kaspont over 2 years ago
• Went yellow like the Simpsons

  Diary

  Medical 22.5 Turned yellow, sent to A&E at St Richard’s arrived 4pm and left 1am. Saw medical team, bilirubin levels high, to return 11am for CT scan on 23.5 23.5 had CT scan at 10am, diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and admitted to Emer...

  RichieRooRoo over 2 years ago
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  Community News

  Dealing with a teenager’s cancer diagnosis: Mandeep and Jai’s story

  A cancer diagnosis can impact the whole family. As a father, Mandeep shares his experience of his son Jai’s cancer diagnosis in the hope of helping more families who are going through the same experience.

  Megan- Online Community Team over 2 years ago
• Is it just me or is everything different?

  Why must it be different?

  Did anyone wake up one day and think the world now looked different somehow? Not necessarily different good or different bad, but as if the colour palette or spectrum had shifted slightly?  I did.  The first time you hear those words, &qu...

  Kll over 2 years ago