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

  Mr U 9 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.

  Dylan - Online Community Team 23 hours ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted

  W J 2 days ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 5 days ago
• Multiple Myeloma

  Tess123 11 days ago
• Mumofcancer

  Mumofcancer 17 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 19 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 26 days ago

Latest blog posts

• Words, Pathways, Journeys

  Reclaiming some joy

  It often feels like an uphill struggle to find any joy in amongst the fear, anxiety and, at times, depression that my cancer diagnosis has brought into my life. At times, I’ll be honest, it’s felt like an impossible task, with joy a dista...

  Writing Lola over 1 year ago
• My husbands reversal

  Why my husband had his temporary ileostomy reversed

  Hello my name is Tam, ihave read quite a few comments about whether to have a temporary ileostomy reversed or not and the concerns about LARS.  I’m not an expert, but I wanted to share my husband’s (71 yrs) story, to help others. He ...

  Tam020 over 1 year ago
• My Hodgkin's story

  The 2nd cycle (Apr 2024)

  Trying to continue with the original timeline I had in mind... I remember recovering pretty well on the 'off-week' of my first cycle. That weekend I managed to go for a few walks with my girlfriend and felt that somehow I was almost as normal...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago
• Grief is so damn hard

  Just a vent

  Not sure who I am angriest with: me, BT or EE. But probably me. My beautiful Valen worked from home and dealt with people in Canada, America and India so needed a really good spec broadband. He was also renowned for his love of gadgets, new...

  MrsVT over 1 year ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  Time for a hip replacement?

  I had my right hip replaced in September 21 following a couple of years of denial that anything was wrong. I seemed to have constant issues with abductors, quads, hamstrings etc, but never admitted the hip was the issue. Family were telling me to get...

  Coddfish over 1 year ago
• Suea

  Suea

  How do I stop worrying that I will get lung cancer again. I had a lower left lobectomy in April 24 all cancer removed and no further treatment

  Suea over 1 year ago
• Shaka For Life

  There is Life After Chemotherapy?

  I completed 16 rounds (over 5 months) of chemotherapy on 12th November. Last Tuesday, 9 weeks later, I was in the shower, I had music playing and was singing along. I got a strange feeling, I had to pause and think about it. I then realised that the ...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 1 year ago
• Bladder Journey

  History so far.

  Male soon to be 69yrs young. I have had an enlarged prostrate for a few years but I had a green light surgery to reduce the size of the prostrate last November 2023. After that surgery I was left with urinary incontinence which I found very difficult...

  fella68 over 1 year ago
• Grief is so damn hard

  You knew didn’t you?

  I had a crash day today after my first counselling session yesterday.  I came away from it knowing it will be of benefit and went to our cafe to tell our 2 best friends all about it. A few tears but was ok. Ok when I got home. Ac...

  MrsVT over 1 year ago
• After the cancer took dad

  Unimaginable

  It's nearly been 2 weeks since my dad has passed. The house is quiet. I stayed to take care of him since his diagnosis around April 2024. Chemo seemed to work slightly, and every month his body would lose vitality. To be honest, I saw he was hidi...

  Tuesday2Tuesday over 1 year ago