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Linda Nolan has said she is preparing to lose her hair for the fifth time as she begins further chemotherapy to treat her cancer.
The 65-year-old Nolans singer was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005, which went into remission the following year. In 2017, she announced that she had been diagnosed with a secondary cancer in her hip, which spread to her liver in 2020. Three years later, the cancer had spread to her brain.
In her latest health update, posted earlier this week, Nolan said two of her largest tumors had grown and that her treatment was “no longer working.” She revealed she would receive a new life-extending breast cancer drug called Enhertu and undergo further chemotherapy.
Appears in Thursday’s episode of Good morning, Great Britain (August 29) Speaking from her home in Blackpool, Nolan said she was preparing to lose her hair for the fifth time.
“The large tumors in my brain have gotten bigger. But the immunotherapy worked on them originally, so they’re not as big as they were originally, but they’re bigger.
“So they put me on another round of chemotherapy, which may cause me to lose my hair for the fifth time,” she said, fighting back tears.
The Nolan family has struggled with cancer before. Nolan, Colleen and Anne were all diagnosed at different times. Anne recovered successfully from cancer, but Nolan lost both her husband Brian Hudson and her younger sister Bernie to the disease.
Asked by presenter Richard Madeley if she was angry about how cancer had affected her family, Nolan replied: “I asked Bernie once and someone said to her, ‘Do you ever think, why me?’ and she said, ‘No, I think, why not me.’ She’s not picky.
“You can’t put yourself on the list and say you’re next in line. But we haven’t had an easy time with it.”
“It’s like, ‘Go away, leave us alone,'” she said of cancer. “But the treatment options that are available now are excellent and hopefully this will work, and if it doesn’t work, (my oncologist) will prescribe me another one.”
In conversation with The mirror In an article published on Wednesday (August 28), Nolan said her recent test results left her “sobbing.”
“I sobbed when my doctor first told me. I know so many people are suffering and going through things, but I thought, couldn’t the cancer just leave me alone for once? My heart sank.”
She continued: “I was worried that something was wrong. My sense of balance has deteriorated and my memory – my sisters have to help me when I lose track of what I’m saying in the middle of a sentence.”
Nolan said of her upcoming treatment: “Being able to try a new drug is great. I just wish everyone had that opportunity.
“The opportunity to try this is hope – it’s a Plan B that not everyone is allowed to have. Taking this drug away from women is taking away their hope.”
While she admitted she fears the side effects of chemotherapy, she said she is “willing to try anything” to get back to full health.
“I’ve done this before and I can do it again,” she said.
