Coleen Nolan breaks down in tears as she discusses sister Linda's brain cancer diagnosis
27.03.2023 - 12:43
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Coleen Nolan broke down in tears as she discussed her sister Linda's brain cancer diagnosis on Monday's Loose Women. Earlier on Monday, Linda Nolan revealed that her cancer has spread to her brain in a devastating health update on Good Morning Britain.The star, who found fame as one fifth of The Nolans – one of the most successful girl groups of all time, selling over 30 million records worldwide – first learned she had breast cancer in 2006. Her devastating diagnosis came six years after her older sister Anne’s and four years before sister Bernie’s.
Bernie tragically died from the disease in 2013, aged just 52, while Anne, 72, has since received the all-clear. Linda, who recently celebrated her 64th birthday, has incurable secondary cancer which has spread from her hip to her liver. Appearing on Monday's GMB, Linda devastatingly revealed that her cancer has now spread to her brain as she vowed to make the most of every day.Talking about the heartbreaking news on Loose Women, Coleen, 58, was overcome with emotion as she praised her sister's "strength".
She said: "Linda has had cancer since 2005, it's her strength and will to live. She is just so strong, all the time and so it makes the rest of us strong. "It was a big shock on Monday when she told us that was the diagnosis, she's had incurable cancer for quite a while but it's all been treatable.
And then every three months, we have to wait for these results and up to this point they've all been quite positive, still the same, hasn't moved, it's not spread. "Then her legs started playing up, to the point she was falling constantly. Like she fell four times in a week, bruised all her face, her legs just couldn't carry her and she thought: 'I need to check this out.' "In
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