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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
    6 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

  • Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica
    Beesuit 2 minutes ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Mr U 8 hours ago
  • Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy
    excavator 21 hours 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 1 day ago
  • WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted
    W J 1 day ago
  • Cool Cap Relief
    TerryB 4 days ago
  • Living with Desdemona
    Desdemona 5 days ago
  • One Step At A Time
    Phild26 6 days ago
  • Multiple Myeloma
    Tess123 18 days ago
  • Mumofcancer
    Mumofcancer 24 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica
    Results and a hiccup
    June 20 2019 Five weeks later there are a lot of people in the consulting room again and I am pitched into the dark again as I’m told that the PET/CT shows an 8mm hotspot and they need to biopsy but everybody tries to reassure me that they have...
    Beesuit 22 hours ago
  • Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica
    Recovery and scans
    May 16 2019 Two weeks pass and life begins to reappear somehow. I have an appointment to see Dr Banner in four weeks time. It seems a lifetime since I saw him. I forget what he looks like. I have been plagued with nausea from week three. I suspect it...
    Beesuit 22 hours ago
  • Community News
    It’s National Inclusion Week!
    Have you ever felt that your identity, background or the way you experience the world has affected your cancer journey?

    National Inclusion Week is an opportunity to think about what inclusion means for people affected by cancer. Cancer can affect anyone, but the experience of diagnosis, treatment and recovery isn’t the same for everyone.

    For some people, their identity or circumstances can bring additional challenges when accessing information, treatment or support.

    At Macmillan, we want everyone...

    Emma - Online Community Team 1 day ago
  • WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted
    Survey email
    Just had a server email off MacMillan, I don’t mean to be rude but it was a pointless survey asking questions about faith, earnings in the house, ethnicity, gender identification. I completed it with no reply answers, what a waste of questions....
    W J 1 day ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Post 507: Too good to be true, my new shoes.
    Post 507: Too good to be true, my new shoes. It’s great when a plan comes together and today the plan was faultless. Looking out of the window where cat was singing his f xx to me, or was it just the same whining about feeling hungry, ha ha. ...
    Mr U 1 day ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Post 506: Yes, another sunny day.
    Post 506: Yes, another sunny day. With my Darling gone to work at 4am and not back till 2pm I’m left in the house alone, or should it read, while the cats away the mice will play. The cat was fed early and lately he’s been happy just to...
    Mr U 2 days ago
  • WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted
    News of the day
    Had my meeting and post MRI results are stable had my seizure medication review too. And left as before. So in all a good result
    W J 2 days ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Post 505: Nature all around, but so to is good news.
    Post 505: Nature all around, but so to is good news. With photos of the changes in the season coming thick and fast I’ve noticed some grasses that are beautifully painted although we know it’s “just” Mother Nature. But while...
    Mr U 3 days ago
  • Cool Cap Relief
    Cool Cap Pain Relief
    I'm a veteran of eight years of cancer.  I had prostate cancer surgery in 20i8, SABR Radiotherapy in 2022 for metastatic cancer and Hormone Therapy (ongoing) and Chemotherapy for metastatic cancer in 2024. My PSA is currently undetectable (i...
    TerryB 4 days ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Post 504: Getting back on the bus?
    Post 504: Getting back on the bus? It’s only today I realised about how little I’ve spent thinking or mentioning the bus, of this blog. The whole reason to start this blog was to spread the situation I was in to all my family and friend...
    Mr U 4 days ago
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