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

  Mr U 11 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

• 4 am breakfast club .

  Insomnia

  good morning cancer warriors of the UK . im simon have stage 4 cancer , and I thought I start some sort of chat area to meet people that are up early. I find a lot of my question come in the early hours of the morning , and I thought there are lots o...

  simon IVA over 1 year ago
• The Art of Letting Go

  The Art of Letting Go: How Cancer Changed My Perspective on Life

  When I was first diagnosed with cancer, I clung tightly to everything I thought I could control—my schedule, my appearance, my plans for the future. It wasn’t long before I realized that cancer had its own plans, and my old way of living...

  LindaA24 over 1 year ago
• 3rd time now

  New journey into a different cancer

  Last few day horrendous  GP informed X-ray showed lung cancer  Blood tests and 2 weeks referral never really slept last night  Just a waiting game now 

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

  Nothing to see here

  Another 3 months has passed. Another scan. Another anxious wait for results. Each time I go through this, my level of expectation of a good result is higher and therefore my fear of a bad one is worse. But I had nothing to worry about, as it was clea...

  Coddfish over 1 year ago
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  Community News

  The Online Community Festive Quiz - 2024 Edition

  Looking for a bit of light hearted fun? Join in the festive quiz where you ten questions await you. Get a cuppa, a mince pie and join in!

  Syed - Macmillan over 1 year ago
• Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy

  12 Weeks Past Chemo

  Well it's now 12 weeks since my last chemo cycle. The one lasting side effect, fingernail problems, is changing very slowly indeed but is moving in the right direction. Apart from the two nails that had infections under them and dropped off (whic...

  excavator over 1 year ago
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  One Life Live It

  Seriously, you lost my blood test!

  It's the hectic week before Christmas and everyone is cramming in last minute meetings at work. I just got home from 4 weeks working overseas, so my evenings are spent writing cards, packing presents, baking Christmas cake and soaking fruit for the C...

  Irishgirl16 over 1 year ago
• Shaka For Life

  5 Things I wish I'd Known Before BC

  15th December marked 10 months since I received my BC diagnosis. Now, here I am: 1 mastectomy down1 lumpectomy down16 chemotherapy rounds in 1 further mastectomy to follow There are so many things I wish I knew before starting on this path. Here are ...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 1 year ago
• Shaka For Life

  Signs of Life...

  It's been 3mths since I last posted here. Sorry if that sounds like I'm in church! I've no idea where to start. These past months have been hard. I finished 5 months of chemotherapy a month ago. 4 rounds of EC and 12 of Paclitaxel. The s...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 1 year ago
• My Hodgkin's story

  The start of chemo - getting to know the E, A, C, P and Dac in BEACOPDac

  This is about the first few days of chemo. I will try to be very detailed and a bit explicit with some stuff. Before I got chemo I didn’t want to read or know anything about what the expect, so if you are reading this and think the same way, pr...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago