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

  Mr U 32 minutes 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 18 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 19 days ago
• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

  Emotions 20 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

• Chemo/Radio With Cysplatin 3 weekly. For Womb cancer.

  Days 25 - 40

  Well that has gone so quickly and sorry for not updating. 1. The chemo wore off gradually - tiredness and nausea not as bad as last time and subsided until week 3.  By which I felt nearly normal. Hot flushes continue but I'm back onto magnes...

  Act over 2 years ago
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  One Life Live It

  Zometa #6 and Lowering Cholesterol

  When I started the zoledronic acid bone infusions I was told these would be for 3 years, so actually this would be my last one. But, as is common with breast cancer, treatment protocols change all the time, and now these are recommended for 5 years, ...

  Irishgirl16 over 2 years ago
• Every day matters

  Totally Overwhelmed

  My 80 year old step dad, who is like a father to me, has terminal lung cancer and I live overseas. My mum died five years ago I've come back along with my partner to care for him. He was in a dreadful state when we arrived but having people here ...

  Lizziexx over 2 years ago
• Grant’s prostrate cancer Chemo blog

  Days 8 - 14 Things settle down

  Day 8, The new meds that the lovely Gemma put me on for the heartburn problems really helped. Heartburn easing and managed to build up to 5500 steps involving and up and down of Scarborough’s cliffs (we live in Scarborough) but pooped after. So...

  Grantyo12 over 2 years ago
• Cancer - The Five Year Plus Blog

  Cancer Story, It Gets Boring After 5 Years

  Cancer Story, It Gets Boring After 5 Years It may be strange thing to say, but after surviving cancer for 5 years it all gets a bit boring (in the nicest possible way). When I was 1st diagnosed with cancer in May/June 2018 I couldn't see much point...

  Penrod over 2 years ago
• My Journey on Paclitaxel

  8th July 10th and Final Radiotherapy session.

  Today was my final radiotherapy session. I was in again at 8.45, box of chocolates in hand for the department. I might have only been going in there for 10 days but I was in there more than chemo. I had a few tears when hubby and I got outside. There...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  London Calling, again!

  Sunday 23rd June and I head back to London. I have an 8am appointment for an angiogram at Northwick Park Hospital. It’s a pretty awful journey. I get to the station to find my fast train has been cancelled; but I’m just in time for an ear...

  Dignahtee over 2 years ago
• Shaka For Life

  Am I Brave?

  I've lost count of the number of times I've been called brave, since I began this nightmare journey. I'm always left deeply discomfitted. Even though I'm not sure why. In the face of a bilateral breast cancer diagnosis... Is it brave ...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 2 years ago
• Shaka For Life

  Two Breasts. One Breast. None.

  They tried to make me go to radiotherapy. I said no! No! No! In the weeks following my bilateral breast surgery, I waited to find out the verdict. Had the surgery managed to remove all of the cancer? Was there any spread to my lymph nodes? Had it spr...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 2 years ago
• Walt’s widow

  Day 7 of my husbands passing

  How do I start? well today is the first day I have been able to think  about writing anything down last Sunday 30 th June was the day my husband of 40 yrs died, he had been diagnosed 4 mths ogo with terminal lung cancer, the worst kind,most aggr...

  Jayneydee57 over 2 years ago