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

  Mr U 16 hours ago
• Cool Cap Relief

  TerryB 1 day ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 2 days ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Beesuit 3 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 3 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.

  Dylan - Online Community Team 5 days ago
• Multiple Myeloma

  Tess123 15 days ago
• Mumofcancer

  Mumofcancer 21 days ago
• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

  Emotions 23 days ago

Latest blog posts

• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  The sequel...part two of 'Responsible Adults and a Big Knife'

  Responsible adults and a big knife – Part 2 Everyone has gone and there is a new nurse present. The recovery nurse. She asks me how I am feeling. Good, I think except my throat is a bit sore? She removes the air-way; a plastic tube that keeps y...

  Dignahtee over 2 years ago
• Prostate cancer Brachytherapy three Months later

  The Journey Part 2 after Brachytherapy

  So you need to read my first part before you read this although if you have had the treatment you know what it is like and so to start part two. I thought it would be pretty plain sailing had the treatment then a case of recovery but oh no first off ...

  Tel64 over 2 years ago
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  Community News

  How to Use the Online Community – Private Messages, Public Forums, and User Blogs

  If you’re brand new to the Online Community, you may be wondering where to start. Although the site is packed with useful resources, there are three main features you’ll want to get to know first: Private Messages, the Cancer Forums, and user Blogs. Need a quick overview? This is the article for you!

  Matthew - Online Community Team over 2 years ago
• My Triple Negative Cancer Journey

  Surgery and post operation results.

  I had my second surgery on Wednesday 6th September.  I went into hospital at 7.15 am and went down for surgery at 3.30 pm. I had a lumpectomy on my left side and a full auxiliary clearance on my right side. Shortly after waking up I was brought ...

  Daisy53 over 2 years ago
• Cathy

  Battle against Pancreatic Cancer

  I care for my husband who is battling against pancreatic cancer, he has been through so much he had the whipple operation 2021, then went through 6 months of chemotherapy, he had a year clear then it came back, had 3 months of chemotherapy, then targ...

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

  First puff of the trade winds

  Today is the first day I have had good news for quite some time.  First, and to my surprise, the MRI report from last Thursday evening is back in, and it shows all my liver mets have reduced, with no new lesions formed anywhere in the liver. Sec...

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

  Still waiting for a trade wind to arrive

  I am, as my consultant said last week, ‘stuck’. The creatinine level is stubbornly stable at around 1.75 x my previous baseline. Whilst there might be some further small improvement, it looks like that may be my permanent new normal. I am...

  Coddfish over 2 years ago
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  Sylvie Ronnie

  where are you Wilbert

  We are looking for our friend Wilbert who we used to chat to on here. If you see this message Wilbert please get intuch on here. Love from Sylvia and Ronnie

  sylvieron over 2 years ago
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  Community News

  Humour - It's no joke

  Humour and cancer are almost considered a taboo subject when discussed together. However, for some it's a means of coping with a diagnosis. Join us as we take a look at how the Community may use humour to cope.

  Syed - Macmillan over 2 years ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  Navigating the doldrums

  The majority of my blog entries have been about the procedures and treatments I have been having. As well as giving me an outlet to recap the history of this, I always hope they will help others facing similar things understand what is involved in so...

  Coddfish over 2 years ago