Coleen Nolan put on a brave face after her sister’s cancer update (Image: COPYRIGHT Rebecca Lupton 2024)
Linda Nolan has revealed cancerous tumours in her brain have now grown after treatment stopped working. Now her doting sister Coleen has appeared on social media for the first time since the sad news.
Coleen Nolan has broken her social media silence after her sister Linda’s heartbreaking cancer update.
Linda, 65, has revealed cancerous tumours in her brain have now grown after ongoing treatment stopped working. She has been open about her cancer diagnosis after her secondary breast cancer was found to have spread to her brain.
Now Coleen has made a cheerful appearance on social media for the first time today. Whizzing around on a chair in the Loose Women studios, she smiled to the team: “I’ve missed you.”
Coleen, who put on a brave face, also posted on Instagram to tell fans she would be on This Morning.
Coleen Nolan breaks social media silence after sister Linda’s cancer update ( Image:Instagram)
Coleen was seen in the Loose Women studios ( Image:Instagram)
Linda has now bravely given fans an update on her health. She shared her difficult news in The Mirror.
The Nolans’ singer was told by her consultant last week that her most recent scans show a growth of the two largest tumours at the front and left side of her brain, as well as a slight increase of smaller cancerous spots surrounding them.
She made the devastating discovery last spring that secondary breast cancer had spread to her brain, and has since been undergoing regular treatment which first shrunk the tumours, and then stabilised them.
Although the growths have not returned to the size they were when they were first discovered, this latest progression indicates her current treatment is no longer effective.
Mirror columnist Linda, 65, 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.”
She admitted: “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. Maureen came with me to the appointment and my Macmillan Cancer support nurse was in the room, and I could just tell. I asked my consultant straight away: ‘Has it spread?’
“When he told me, I immediately asked: ‘What do we do now?’” Linda was first diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in 2005, but despite receiving the all-clear a secondary form of the disease was found in her hip in 2017, and later in her liver.
Since the discovery of tumours in her brain last March she has been undergoing immunotherapy every three weeks, but thankfully there is now another type of chemotherapy the singer can try in the hope it could control her cancer’s progression.
Linda has talked about her cancer diagnosis ( Image: Julian Hamilton/Daily Mirror)
The new treatment, which she starts tomorrow WEDS, will include Enhertu, a drug denied women on the NHS in England with a different type of secondary breast cancer to her own, due to a funding row between National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and drugmakers AstraZeneca.While Linda has a type of secondary breast cancer called HER2-positive, women with a different form, HER2-low, are campaigning to be allowed Enhertu on the NHS, which is available in Scotland and has been found to potentially prolong life by months.
Linda said: “To be able to try a new drug is amazing, I just wish everyone could have this opportunity. To be able to try this is hope – it’s a plan B not everyone is being allowed. To take this drug away from women is to take away their hope.”
