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

  Mr U 1 hour ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b

  W J 20 hours ago
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  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

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• 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 221: Laxido and the Lesser-Sipped-Morphine.

  Post 221: Laxido and the Lesser-Sipped-Morphine. By midday I’d given up hovering over the phone waiting for a call from radiotherapy. I needed to get on with other things — I can’t spend the whole day imprisoned by an 8:30–5:...

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

  Bloods

  25/11/26  had bloods today to check my platelets. Results Thursday most likely

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

  Post 220: Ever Increasing Weakness and a lovely snuggle.

  Post 220: Ever Increasing Weakness and a lovely snuggle. I slept well last night — 8.5hrs of bliss, no nightmare and no issues. I’ll have a few more like that please. ——— There’s a creeping understanding of my...

  Mr U 9 months ago
• Journaling my cancer jouney

  Journaling my cancer journey - my next poem: The Paranoia Battle

  Hello Everyone,   I hope this post finds everyone doing OK / getting through it?  My apologies for my tardiness in getting this next poem out to you but I’ve had another stay in hospital with my 2nd infection since I started on my ste...

  Twin Castor57b5d5 9 months ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b

  Cycles

  I keep reading people stop their cycles of chemo after 6 months. I’ve been on mine since I started. Is that normal. I had tremazadol and that didn’t work at all. They then started me on lomustine. I’ve been on that ever since. They ...

  W J 9 months ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b

  Checking in

  Nov 2025 - so I’ve been having blood test and everything has been down for the last few months; so no chemo for me. All but my platelets have returned to normal, and I’ve found the lumps on my left hip. I’ll get these checked by my ...

  W J 9 months ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b

  White cells

  Nov 2025 - so I’ve been having blood test and everything has been down for the last few months; so no chemo for me. All but my white cells have but returned to normal, and I’ve found the lumps on m left hip. I’ll get these checked b...

  W J 9 months ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b

  My diagnoses is not hd

  Ive tried to delete the hd (homozygous deletion) but with no luck. I’ve emailed twice but don’t want to mislead. Mine is a non deleted

  W J 9 months ago
• Kidney Not

  Four Years On

  Today is 24th November 2025.  Four years since my urology appointment informing me I had incurable metastatic kidney cancer. I don’t feel like I have incurable cancer any more and it’s not a worry.  It does inconvenience me.&nbs...

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

  Post 219: Another Day in Bed.

  Post 219: Another Day in Bed. There’s nothing to say that I didn’t already say yesterday — I’m in bed and pretty much stuck here. The pain is now more focused on certain muscles and joints mostly on the left, sitting anywher...

  Mr U 9 months ago