Linda Nolan issues devastating cancer update as treatment stops working

28 August 2024, 14:34

The Nolan Sisters have been blighted by cancer in recent years.

Their family have suffered from much heartache related to cancer, which has impacting their lives immeasurably.

Anne Nolan has battled breast cancer twice, firstly in 2000 and again in 2020 whilst Bernie tragically succumbed to breast cancer in 2013 aged just 53.

Linda Nolan's husband died of skin cancer in 2007, and now Linda herself is in the thick of her own battle with cancer, for the second time.

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She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, which was sadly followed by a secondary cancer on her pelvis which was diagnosed in 2017.

Recently however, Linda issued a devastating update on her cancer battle, revealing that her treatment is no longer working.

In March 2023, she revealed that the disease had spread to her brain and that'd she'd be fortunate to make it to Christmas.

She pulled through against the odds, but her recent statement indicates that her prognosis isn't a positive one.

The singer and television personality revealed that two tumours have grown at the front and left side of her brain, suggesting that her treatment is now ineffective.

Talking to The Mirror, Linda said: "I sobbed when my consultant first told me. I know so many people are suffering and going through things, but I thought, just for once, could cancer just leave me alone? My heart sank."

"I had feared something was wrong. My balance has been getting worse and my memory – my sisters have to prompt me when I get lost in the middle of a sentence."

Linda has been undergoing immunotherapy since March of last year, and will now undergo chemotherapy treatment in an attempt to control the spread of cancer.

Understandably, she's concerned about the side effects which means she'll lose her hair, again: "That will be five times I’ve lost my hair!" she told the consultant.

"But if it happens, I’ll just shave it again," she added. "Thankfully, he is not saying 'we can’t do anything for you'."

"We have more places to go. I am ready to try anything. I have done this before and I can do it again."

Her sister Coleen - who appears frequently on the daytime panel show Loose Women - recently discussed the toll cancer has taken on the Nolan family.

"We have had so much heartache… I’m always checking. I still have this thing when I think, 'What if I have missed it?'" Coleen said on a recent episode.

"Really, from Linda, it became a big thing for me. It’s obviously in our family. I hope I don’t get it, but I just want to think that if I do, I’ll get it early."

"Linda put off going way too long. And she admits that now. She didn’t go straight away, so by the time they found it… it was huge."

Coleen has had a cancer scare herself, undergoing treatment for a low-grade skin cancer called carcinoma which she caught early enough to treat successfully.

Let's hope and pray that Linda's treatment works just as successfully.