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• time for a cuppa....

  hugs 1 hour ago
• Speaking to an empty room

  RedTree26 3 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 13 hours ago
• Wittering away...

  Rowan8a3264 16 hours ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception

  dolphin99 1 day ago
• My Mengioma Brain Tumour Story

  GaryG298207 1 day ago
• Looking after Mr. B

  Miranda t 5 days ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Beesuit 6 days ago
• My BCG Therapy

  Aurelius 6 days ago
• Pedalling through this journey

  Former Member 7 days ago

Latest blog posts

• Kidney Not

  Covid

  Isn’t the cancer journey uncertain?  You feel you have it “sorted” only for something to happen and challenge the strategy you had come to terms with. . . . . or had you?!  I had been cheerily thinking how quickly the four...

  Mmum over 3 years ago
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  Community News

  Finding human connections and support: Rubina’s story

  Rubina talks about her experience getting a bowel cancer diagnosis and how much it helped her to find peer support and human connection while going through treatment.

  Eliza -Online Community Team over 3 years ago
• Third time lucky?

  Poo(h) sticks save the day

  In 2015 I was invited by the NHS bowel screening programme to send them samples of my stools, which I did promptly. It was the second time I was taking part, the first time two years before the test was clear. But this time I was asked to repeat, the...

  Former Member over 3 years ago
• Third time lucky?

  Dedicated to the one that took my place (male breast cancer)

  In 2013 I had a scare for breast cancer. It turned out to be benign gynaecomastia, but for a few days I was obviously worried. In the aftermath and heaving a sigh of relief, I wrote the following. The Clive referred here is Clive James, whose lyric w...

  Former Member over 3 years ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  Cancer, the gift that keeps on giving

  I had an appointment with my oncologist today to follow up on my recent CT scan and liver MRI. Initially I thought it might be good news, as my appointment was taken by the Registrar, not the lead consultant. Not so. First up, my CA15-3 was within th...

  Coddfish over 3 years ago
• Tamoxifen

  Abemaciclib

  Has anyone started taking this chemo drug which I am about to start.?? I will be on it for 2 yrs for the prevention of breast cancer returning.   I know everyone is different but what are the immediate side effects? Anything like EC or Docetaxel?

  Thank you Zad

  Zad over 3 years ago
• Stomach cancer

  Helen28

  • My stomach cancer has returned.   Scared an u derstatement can’t operate but are trying to keep cancer at bay was suffering lot pain and sickness. Now I have been told after bowel obstruction. That there parts of it in colon.      Go see my oncologist next week worried sick I am 

  Former Member over 3 years ago
• Summer 22

  What next?

  Since last writing, I have continued to recover from the chemo - it is going to take longer than I thought! I still get tired much easier than I used to and I am having to allow for this. We have also spoken to the consultant again and I am now on ho...

  Cross stitcher over 3 years ago
• Food intake

  Does anybody have any suggestions

  Does anybody have any suggestions as to how to build a diet plan of 1/3 of my food intake and not battle to keep my weight on.

  Former Member over 3 years ago
• My black dog

  Crystals passing in urine

  When starting ENZ I was given a large dose tablet of Vitamin D On 23 3 23 I passed small,  white granules about the size of a small rice crispie As I have a urine infection a community nurse came to change the catheter. She noticed smaller cry...

  Former Member over 3 years ago