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"The tumours haven\u2019t grown. In fact, the consultant said these precious words: \u201cThere\u2019s still some shrinkage.\u201d I mean, I wish around my waist, but I\u2019ll take it. I\u2019ll definitely take it!" Linda says she is continuing to embrace every moment and recently went with a friend to see her "idol" Donny Osmond.<\/p>\n
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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.<\/p>\n
Opening up to Woman magazine about her battle, Linda explained: \u201cSometimes it\u2019s hard but I never want cancer to win, \u201cSometimes I slide down the wall and cry my eyes out because I\u2019m having a bad day, but 99.9% of the time I\u2019m OK." Last year the star said that in a way knowing that her cancer was not curable had given her \u201ca little sense of freedom\u201d. She said it did so in that she now does the things that she wants to do.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt gives me a new perspective on life for me because I don't know how long I've got,\u201d she said on GMB. \u201cWhatever time I've got left, I want to make memories and have a great time." The Nolan family has faced cancer before \u2013 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.<\/p>\n
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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 \u201cfound it in time\u201d.<\/p>\n
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