Linda Nolan issues health battle update after incurable breast cancer diagnosis
Linda Nolan has revealed that doctors have found "shrinkage" on her tumours.
The 64-year-old star has had incurable secondary breast cancer since 2017 which has since spread to the brain. She has bravely opened up in recent months about her health battle and about how she remains positive for the sake of loved ones around her. Writing in her column in the Mirror, Linda shared "good news" about her cancer following the results of her latest scans.
Linda was told that the "tumours haven’t grown" and in the consultant "said these precious words: 'There’s still some shrinkage'". She wrote : "I was getting the results of my scans. Because my appointment was later in the afternoon than usual, my head started to run riot. There’s always that thing outside the door when you know your life could change in minutes. But it was good news.
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"The tumours haven’t grown. In fact, the consultant said these precious words: “There’s still some shrinkage.” I mean, I wish around my waist, but I’ll take it. I’ll definitely take it!" Linda says she is continuing to embrace every moment and recently went with a friend to see her "idol" Donny Osmond.
The singing star was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005, and although she beat it at the time the illness returned in 2017. She has said it can't be cured and earlier this year she revealed during an appearance on Good Morning Britain that the cancer had now spread to her brain.
Opening up to Woman magazine about her battle, Linda explained: “Sometimes it’s hard but I never want cancer to win, “Sometimes I slide down the wall and cry my eyes out because I’m having a bad day, but 99.9% of the time I’m OK." Last year the star said that in a way knowing that her cancer was not curable had given her “a little sense of freedom”. She said it did so in that she now does the things that she wants to do.
“It gives me a new perspective on life for me because I don't know how long I've got,” she said on GMB. “Whatever time I've got left, I want to make memories and have a great time." The Nolan family has faced cancer before – 10 years ago Linda lost her 52-year-old sister Bernie to the disease. And another of her siblings, 73-year-old Anne, has battled the illness twice.
Then this year the singer's younger sister Coleen told fans that she had a brush with it herself. The Loose Women panelist, 58, revealed that she had been diagnosed with skin cancer, explaining that doctors told her she had pre-melanoma on her face and carcinoma on her shoulder. However, she assured fans on Instagram that she would be OK as she “found it in time”.
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