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• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b

  W J 18 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 22 hours ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 3 days 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.

  Lizzie - Online Community Team 3 days ago
• Multiple Myeloma

  Tess123 9 days ago
• Mumofcancer

  Mumofcancer 16 days ago
• One Step At A Time

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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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• Pete's cancer blog

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Latest blog posts

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

  Post 235: How much pain is too much pain.

  Post 235: How much pain is too much pain. We enjoyed a mince pie meeting with my surrogate mother’s new boyfriend — the 81-year-old who didn’t look a day over 70. He told us, in passing, that his family have old-growing bones: a 10...

  Mr U 8 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 234: Young, free but not single.

  Post 234: Young, free but not single. Less than a week ago I opted to be youngish, freeish, but never single. It was a determined effort to keep away from anything to do with hospitals, tests and phone calls about my health. So here I am, not even...

  Mr U 8 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 233: Another bad night and an A&E morning.

  Post 233: Another bad night and an A&E morning. The last thing anyone wants is another day of woe because of pain that simply refuses to shift—but that’s exactly what I got. By 2 a.m. I was ready to call it quits and ask for help. S...

  Mr U 8 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 232: I want to do more — but I can’t.

  Post 232: I want to do more — but I can’t. Last night’s bed-rest was the lousiest I’ve had in ages—pain between a 6 and a 9, and comfort stuck at a solid 9. These aren’t scales I usually think in, but the last ti...

  Mr U 9 months ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b

  MRI results

  Well my bloods are still low, so another chemo break and an MRI in March ( the beginning of the year is a bit hectic apparently). My scan shows as no change which is good

  W J 9 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 231: I’m so easily frustrated; but the Christmas tree is up.

  Post 231: I’m so easily frustrated; but the Christmas tree is up. Yesterday I must have expended more energy than I thought by way of the meeting and a meal out, because I have a tired frustration — also I have a gut-feeling that’s...

  Mr U 9 months ago
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  Community News

  Staying in the present at Christmas: how I coped with each 'last time'

  Wee Me shares how she handled potential 'last Christmases' in the face of her husband's incurable cancer diagnosis.

  Matthew - Online Community Team 9 months ago
• What the UTUC!

  The countdown to Christmas and Surgery!

  It's all getting closer now. Had my pre-surgery CT scans this week.Surgery assessment is on the 18th December and then surgery on 30th! Starting to feel nervous, but still relaxed!

  Toulouse4ff1cd 9 months ago
• I can't possibly be a human.. I must be a cat with 9 lives...?!

  Pelvic cancer...The story!

  Hello everyone,  I am most definitely not a human...but a cat with 9 lives! I have now had a total of 11 weeks in hospital and the last 2 were due to pelvic cancer. I had a head on car crash years ago (1987) and the seat belt broke my collar bon...

  GCCa4b145 9 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 230: I made a great decision — for me.

  Post 230: I made a great decision — for me. There’s a really quick answer to the question about how the meeting went, and that is: I’ll have three months off for good behaviour thanks, goodbye. I’ve chosen not to have any tr...

  Mr U 9 months ago