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• Living with Desdemona

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

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• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

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• One Step At A Time

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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.

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

  W J 4 days ago
• Multiple Myeloma

  Tess123 12 days ago
• Mumofcancer

  Mumofcancer 19 days ago
• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

  Emotions 21 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. `

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Latest blog posts

• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  Toxic positivity

  If one more person says “you’ve got this” or “you are so strong”, I think I might floor them. The other day, someone at the swimming pool told me she wouldn’t have been able to cope if she had had all the issues I ...

  Coddfish over 2 years ago
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  Community News

  Telling your kids about cancer – experiences from the Online Community

  How do you tell kids about a cancer diagnosis without causing them distress? Is it even possible? In this blog, we see how members of the Online Community approached this difficult subject, and how their experiences might just surprise you…

  Matthew - Online Community Team over 2 years ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted

  8/5/24 to hd or not to hd

  Apparently my notes ( lucky I asked about mine becoming a stage 4 on cns/who) say mine is not HD. My first letter says it is and noticed a note at the back saying it wasn’t so I’ll have them check that. Very tired today, chemo was on Mond...

  W J over 2 years ago
• Every day matters

  The first day of my cancer journey

  Waking up today with a completely different mindset. Yesterday was the first day of my bowel cancer diagnosis. WOW what a difference a day can make in anyone's life. I was born with positive thinking, and problem solving as a skills. Today has st...

  Selsey over 2 years ago
• My Journey on Paclitaxel

  Tuesday 7th May 12days post final Paclitaxel & 1st appointment with Radiotherapist

  I have been doing really good since my last post. I have bumfluff on my head and a couple tiny signs of eyelashes coming back. My weigh isn't really changing yet, but hopefully it will start to come off a bit soon. Today I had my first appointmen...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
• Some Mistake ?

  Private Eyebrows

  There is a lot of changes that come with paclitaxel. I was fascinated rather than alarmed by my hair loss. Cells connected with hair growth are highly active. It is the highly active cells like the cancer cells that the paclitaxel targets. It chucks ...

  Optimus over 2 years ago
• Protein

  Protein - lack of

  Hi, new here but really reaching out for help and suggestions. My sister has oesophagal cancer, diagnosed and having treatment for over a year, it has been stop start and two different types of treatment, the cancer levels are now coming down and the...

  Jojie over 2 years ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted

  2-5-24 MRI

  My bloods are ok for another chemo dose. The platelets had shot up from 50 to 130. So must have eaten something right (spotless most likely). I’ll start it on Monday so I can have a weekend off. The doctor said I didn’t have to take the l...

  W J over 2 years ago
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  Community News

  Breaking the news

  Do you need help telling your family and friends about your cancer diagnosis? Read this blog for some friendly advice from those who have been there, it may help you break the news.

  Megan- Online Community Team over 2 years ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  Adrenal insufficiency?

  Seven and a half months of prednisolone and still going. I had been warned the latter stages were the hard bit. At the beginning, on very high dosage, when I felt continually jittery and couldn’t sleep or taste anything, that was hard to imagin...

  Coddfish over 2 years ago