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• 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.

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• Living with Desdemona

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• Multiple Myeloma

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• Mumofcancer

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• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

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• 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. `

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Latest blog posts

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  One Life Live It

  The Annual Trip to the Hospital

  I always face into my annual check up and mammogram with a level of trepidation and a fair few “what ifs…..” on the few days beforehand.  Normally I am able to compartmentalise my thoughts of recurrence risk, but as the check ...

  Irishgirl16 over 2 years ago
• Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy

  Day 2 After First Chemo

  First things first. I obtained a print of my pre-chemo assessment blood test results. My referral PSA from January 24 was 2.07, having risen from 0.57 in January two years previously. I don't know what it was immediately before current treatment star...

  excavator over 2 years ago
• Peter's Blog

  March to July 2024 Scan Results

  In this blog entry I have broken things down a little bit, at the top I have a month by month breakdown of things, then at the end little sub headings “fatigue” and “random rant”. So as always, grab a tea (or a pillow if you r...

  HawkeyeBrown over 2 years ago
• It Cannot Get Any Worse

  04/07/24

  In my late teens my mum was diagnosed with CLL and as i was sitting in the back of the car eating a cheeseburger with tears rolling down my face - i thought “this couldn’t get any worse” but it did In my early 20s my mum was diagno...

  brokenrose24 over 2 years ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  London Calling!

  I am now well and truly in the clutches of a London cardiac team. I have described how what felt like imminent major cancer surgery was cancelled by the anaesthetist’s concern that my heart may not cope with the 15-hour operation. After several...

  Dignahtee over 2 years ago
• My Journey on Paclitaxel

  4th July completion of 7th Radiotherapy treatment

  Only 2 more sessions to go!!!!!!! I have been fairly good with the last few radiotherapy sessions. I started taking 1 Benadryl antihistamine in the morning before my session, and made sure I didn't have any creams at all on my boobie beforehand. ...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  Do Bears Sh*t in the Woods?

  Well, it’s been nearly six weeks since I finished part four of this journal and quite a lot has been going on. We have just past the very middle of the year and Stonehenge has been temporarily defaced by the ‘Just Stop Oil’ group, I...

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

  Days 1-7 and I’m still here to tell the tale!

  I woke up on day 1, well i say woke up, I’d been awake all night. Just one hour’s sleep. The Dexamethasone saw to that. Gosh that stuff is evil. Thankfully they didn’t send me home with any, just another steroid Perdnisalone. You ta...

  Grantyo12 over 2 years ago
• Shaka For Life

  This is a public shout out to my private posse, my saving grace.

  My Big Sis, Judith, my protector and stand-in mum, from the day of my birth. My best friend. I entered this world six years after her, (she would say 5.5 yrs) it was love at first sight.  Now Judith is my cancer buddy. At my side throughout this...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 2 years ago
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  Community News

  Check-up appointments after endometrial cancer treatment- Jane's story

  Jane is recovering from Endometrial Carcinoma Sarcoma and shares her experience of a recent check up in the hope that it will reassure those who are about to undergo one.

  Megan- Online Community Team over 2 years ago