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Blogging can be a great way to journal your experiences and share with others. Why not create your own cancer journey blog, or have a read of other blogs created by our members?

Unsure how to get started? Take a look at our help pages on blogs. 

Macmillan Information Blogs
  • Random act of kindness
    Random act of kindness
    7 months ago
  • The Changing Faces of Cancer- Scalp cooling, Hair loss and Regrowth.
    The Changing Faces of Cancer- Scalp cooling, Hair loss and Regrowth.
    over 2 years ago
  • If I could go back to the day of my cancer diagnosis
    If I could go back to the day of my cancer diagnosis
    over 2 years ago

Latest blog updates

  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Mr U 17 hours ago
  • Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer
    Lemsip 2 days ago
  • Eunice77
    Eunice77 3 days ago
  • Living with Desdemona
    Desdemona 4 days ago
  • Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica
    Beesuit 6 days ago
  • Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy
    excavator 7 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.
    Emma - Online Community Team 7 days ago
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    W J 7 days ago
  • Cool Cap Relief
    TerryB 10 days ago
  • One Step At A Time
    Phild26 12 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • Stomach Cancer - My journey
    040618 - First Quarterly Check-up

    It is now three months since treatment finished. Today I have my first quarterly check with a CT scan, abdominal ultrasound and blood tests. I've been awake since 5.30am. Apprehensive, moi?

    Former Member over 8 years ago
  • Hair Loss
    Hats Shopping

    How do you decide what to do to feel an iota of your old self after losing your hair? I'm currently living in a beanie hat as I have a small amount of hair left at the front and back. Once this goes I do not know what to do... I've always had a lot of hair, kept it in a reasonable condition but taken it for granted. Do I try for a full on wig or look for a clip in piece if I keep the sides. 

    I certainly cannot rock the cool, bald chick look as I have the ugliest head in history. There must...

    Former Member over 8 years ago
  • I don’t understand
    What do I do now

    I’m not entirely sure of why I’m here everything I seem to do, every where I seem to look, it’s all in slow motion. My world has been ripped apart by this horrible word that I can’t even type. My thought and feelings are like when I was a child to which that all that was around is far too big, Bigger than me and I am a insignificant being that can’t climb out of a situation that is entirely out of my hands. 

    I presume that people will read this and say “she’s having a bad day” trouble is everyday...
    Former Member over 8 years ago
  • my journey so far
    the beginning

    Im all very new to this blog stuff so forgive me if i ramble !  

    My journey began last November (2017) when i found a "tiny" lump in my right breast.  It was getting near christmas, my new career was just getting started and i felt better than i had in years having been suddenly widowed a few years earlier.  The GPs were always busy, you always end end getting something in their waiting rooms, don`t you? So I left it a few weeks to see if it would disappear.  No it didnt, so off i went, aghh...

    Former Member over 8 years ago
  • Thyroid cancer
    All going very fast!

    Hello 

    I'm new to this and have never used any site like this before. By chance just after Christmas I found a tiny lump on the back of my neck, my doctor said it was nothing to worry about but he'd send me for a scan anyway. Cut a long story short that lump was fine but they found lumps in my thyroid. 5  weeks ago I had my right side of my thyroid removed. I've now been diagnosed with pt3 follicular papillary thyroid carcinoma. It's all been so quick it's almost like a blur. In the space of...

    Former Member over 8 years ago
  • Recently diagnosed
    Recently diagnosed

    Hi guys so I've recently been diagnosed with cervical cancer and also a moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma with lymphovascular space involvement positive I'm waiting to find out what treatment I need was just wondering if anyonelse has both and what should I expect 

    Former Member over 8 years ago
  • Brain tumours...
    Fishing....

    Life is a beach, or so they say, and then you die.

    Mine’s actually quite a nice beach, and I’m not dead yet, not by any stretch of the imagination; my beach admittedly has a bit of pollution, but that’s largely been my own fault and now I’m older I look after it better, try to keep it clean, and I’m sure its gradually improving.

    But I do have one big problem with my beach. Well, it’s actually a problem in the water. There is something in it. A shadow. Not a terribly...

    Former Member over 8 years ago
  • Renal Cancer
    Fotivda and Tivozanib -TKI

    Hello - I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Renal Cancer last February. Initially, I was prescribed Sunitinib which I had to stop after one tablet due to a severe allergic reaction. I am now taking Fotivda/Tivozanib a TKI. First one will be later this evening. I would be really grateful to learn of other experiences and any do's and don'ts

    Thanks

    Bridge 18 

    Former Member over 8 years ago
  • The doctor
    The Doctor

    So I went to my GP for numerous ear infections & mentioned the “belated happy 40th” sun spot!! She booked me in the following week & referred me straight away! 

    The following day I was booked in & that Wednesday a week later I had been told you’ve cancer but not a worrying one! My heart stopped I felt sick & my husband sat there listening & took it in - I then had a biopsy which was painful , however I swept it under the carpet :( 


    Then the wait for the biopsy & it hit...

    Former Member over 8 years ago
  • Diagnosed with Bladder Cancer at 7 weeks pregnant
    Diagnosed with Bladder Cancer at 7 weeks pregnant

    Back at the start of 2018 i was a newly married 27 yer old, looking forward to an amazing honeymoon and I'd just found out I was expecting my first baby. Things were absolutely amazing, until all of a sudden they weren't. 

    I havnt spoken about my Bladder Cancer diagnosis on this site yet but have been reading it ever since my diagnosis and have found it a great support. May is Bladder Cancer awareness month so it seemed like a good time to share my story. I have also started my own blog: https...

    Former Member over 8 years ago
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