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Linda Nolan has said she is preparing to lose her hair for a fifth time as she begins another round of chemotherapy to treat her cancer.
The Nolan singer, 65, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 and went into remission the following year. In 2017, she revealed 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 tumours had increased in size and her treatment had “stopped working”. She revealed she would be prescribed a new life-prolonging breast cancer drug called Enhertu, as well as undergoing another round of chemotherapy.
In Thursday's delivery of Good morning Great Britain (August 29) From his home in Blackpool, Nolan said he is preparing to lose his hair for the fifth time.
“The large tumors I have in my brain have gotten bigger, but immunotherapy worked for them originally, so they are not as big as they used to be, but they are bigger.
“I have had another chemo and I may lose my hair for the fifth time,” she said, fighting back tears.
The Nolan family had dealt with cancer before. Nolan, Colleen and Anne were diagnosed at different times. Anne successfully recovered from cancer, but Nolan lost her husband Brian Hudson and her younger sister Bernie to the disease.
Asked by presenter Richard Madeley if she gets angry about how cancer has affected her family, Nolan replied: “I asked Bernie once, someone said to her, ‘Do you ever think why me?’ and she said, ‘No, I think why not me. ’ It’s not cherry-picking.
“You can’t just put your name down and say you’re next in line. But we’ve had a tough time with that.”
“It’s like saying, ‘Go away, leave us alone,’” he said of cancer. “But the treatments that are out there now are brilliant and we hope they work, and if they don’t work, [my oncologist] “put me in another one.”
Talking with The mirror In an article published on Wednesday (August 28), Nolan said the results of her most recent tests left her “sobbing.”
“I cried when my doctor first told me. I know there are a lot of people out there who are suffering and going through difficult times, but I thought: could cancer just leave me alone, just for once? My heart sank.”
She continued: “I was afraid something was wrong. My balance has been getting worse and my memory… my sisters have to help me when I get lost in the middle of a sentence.”
Nolan said of his upcoming treatment: “Being able to try a new medication is amazing, I just wish everyone could have this opportunity.
“Being able to try this is a hope, it is a plan B that is not available to everyone. Taking this medicine away from women is taking away their hope.”
Although she admitted she fears the side effects of chemotherapy, she said she is “ready to try anything” to regain her full health.
“I've done it before and I can do it again,” he said.
