Community Updates

  • Community News : Community guidelines update – sharing medical pictures

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    Please note that this blog is no longer up-to-date. To see the most recent review of the Community guidelines, please see our more recent blog here.

    We have some important information to share here on the Online Community. We have decided to trial updating part of the Community guidelines around medical images.

    Our Community guidelines are what everyone agrees to when they join the Online Community. They’re in place…

  • Community News : Planned maintenance - Wednesday 17th March, 6am - 9am

    Hi everyone,

    Due to some planned maintenance, the Online Community will enter a read-only mode between 6:00am and 9:00am on Wednesday 17th March 2021. 

    This means that you will not be able to log in, post or reply on the Online Community during this time. You will still be able to read posts and blogs on the site.

    If you feel you need some support while the Online Community is unavailable, please remember our Support Line

  • Community News : Look out for our improvements!

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    It’s been a little while since we last posted about our plans for improving the site. In today’s news blog, we’re telling you about five improvements which will be coming to the site within the next few weeks. If you have any questions, please feel free to comment in the comments section below and one of the team will get back to you.

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    First up, we have the ‘Latest…

  • Community News : 2020 on the Online Community

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    Picture from , as part of 2020’s Winter Picture Festival

    Looking back on this year, life might feel very different now than it did a year ago. One thing hasn’t changed: the Online Community is still here for you as a source of support. Here in the Community team, we are so proud of all of our members for sharing their experiences, and offering support to others. We wanted to reflect on everything that the Online…

  • Community News : The Community team are now available on webchat!

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    When looking round the Community recently you may have noticed a new ‘Chat with us’ button appearing when looking at our ‘Ask an Expert pages or our Help section’.  This is Macmillan’s webchat feature and we are pleased to announce that the Community team are now available for you to live chat with for technical support Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm.

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    What is webchat…

  • Community News : Where do you find support online?

    Hi everyone, 

    It's Eliza from the Community team. Finding the right support for you when you're going through an experience with cancer is really important. We're interested to know whether you use other support groups outside the Online Community. 

    You'll see the poll below this post, where you can vote to let us know. 

    Making the Online Community better for you is at the heart of everything we do. If you…