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

  Mr U 10 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 1 day 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 21 days ago
• Pete's cancer blog

  Peterb 26 days ago

Latest blog posts

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  Community News

  New Year, New Dates - Local Cancer Community Meet-ups 2025

  New January and February dates for our latest round of Local Cancer Community Meet-ups. If you're in Birmingham, Bradford, Cardiff, Dundee, Glasgow Coatbridge, or Rochester... read on!

  Matthew - Online Community Team over 1 year ago
• Grief is so damn hard

  My daughter s 3 yr anniversary

  Hi everyone just feeling very lost and very alone. It's her 3rd anniversary next week. I keep breaking down sobbing  and no matter where I am I can't hold it in my partner goes quiet and doesn't know what to say I keep thinking about...

  Shellyanne63 over 1 year ago
• My Hodgkin's story

  Ranting time - When diagnosis takes too long and other stories

  This morning I opened the BBC website and found this article GPs turn to AI to help with patient workload - BBC News Obviously a hot topic this week as the PM talked about how AI is going to help the UK and the NHS and what not... Will not get i...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  MacMillan bloggers, I thank you

  Hello, its been a while since I last posted here. December was a bit of a month and Christmas was a blur spent in the company of the ‘Cheese Eating Assassins’. I hope to do a longer post on these guys. And that’s not why I am writin...

  Dignahtee over 1 year ago
• Positive vibes

  Ovarian BRCA2 secondary in lymph nodes

  I have been through quite a lot to say the least but I’m still here I was on Olaparib parph inhibitors for 17 years unfortunately it stopped working last Jan 2024 prior to that I had 5 years of chemo  My only options now are to have pallia...

  Possitive over 1 year ago
• Grief is so damn hard

  Ambushed again

  So today was so frosty and black ice every where. I went out and did a little skid. I reached out laughing “Dont let me fall”  I crashed down. Not physically. with reality.  A little while ago I posted on the forum about little ...

  MrsVT over 1 year ago
• Words, Pathways, Journeys

  Writing for mind and body

  One of the things I’ve really struggled with since my diagnosis, has been the way that my body had clearly been in trouble for a good while before I even had an inkling that something wasn’t right. How can that be? How can I have experien...

  Writing Lola over 1 year ago
• Grief is so damn hard

  Week 15

  So today it is 15 weeks since my beautiful Valen was ripped from me. Ive started my blog today due to 2 reasons. First, my beautiful Valen loved Father Brown and a new series is starting. Secondly, we were due to fly to Singapore and Malays...

  MrsVT over 1 year ago
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  Community News

  When Positivity Hurts: Insights from the Online Community

  Online Community members share their personal experiences dealing with toxic positivity.

  Dylan - Online Community Team over 1 year ago
• Shaka For Life

  Dear Shaka, it's ok...

  It really is ok: • To grieve the loss of life as you knew it.• To sorely miss your much loved African locs, which you nurtured for nearly two decades.• To miss your thriving private practice and financial independence. • To miss y...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 1 year ago