Linda Nolan shares crucial symptom that revealed cancer had spread as she admits she ‘sobbed’ over devastating news
LINDA Nolan has revealed the crucial health sign that revealed her incurable cancer has spread.
This week we reported how The Nolans singer, who was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005, “sobbed” as she was told the tumours “have grown.”
It was a heartbreaking turn of events after I’m In The Mood For Dancing songstress Linda, 65, was told how there had been “no progression” in the severity of her situation in a major health update back in March.
This happy news – which came with the information that some of her brain tumours had “shrunk” – prompted a celebratory party among the Nolan clan.
Yet with the latest heartbreaking setback, she has alerted fans to the signs.
Speaking to The Mirror, Linda said: “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.”
She added: “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?’”
As well as the cognitive decline, Linda has been told she may lose her hair for the fifth time as she tries a new drug.
The Gotta Pull Myself Together vocalist’s Enhertu treatment is not available on the NHS for women with a different type of secondary breast cancer to her own.
Talking of the moment she was told her tumours had grown and further cancer spots had been found, she told the same publication: “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.”
In 2017, Linda tragically told fans the how the illness had returned and spread to her brain, bones and liver.
What are the signs of breast cancer?
BREAST cancer is the most common type of cancer in the UK.
The majority of women who get it are over 50, but younger women and, in rare cases, men can also get breast cancer.
If it’s treated early enough, breast cancer can be prevented from spreading to other parts of the body.
Breast cancer can have a number of symptoms, but the first noticeable symptom is usually a lump or area of thickened breast tissue.
Most breast lumps aren’t cancerous, but it’s always best to have them checked by your doctor. You should also speak to your GP if you notice any of the following:
- a change in the size or shape of one or both breasts
- discharge from either of your nipples (which may be streaked with blood)
- a lump or swelling in either of your armpits
- dimpling on the skin of your breasts
- a rash on or around your nipple
- a change in the appearance of your nipple, such as becoming sunken into your breast
Source: NHS
Back in 2023, she confirmed the cancer remained present in her brain in another emotional setback for the star.
Linda was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer in 2005 and given the all-clear the next year.
But in March 2017, she was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer which was identified after it spread to her hip, following a fall.
Doctors confirmed they could see no cure – and in May 2020 that it had also spread to her liver.
Her sister Bernie died from breast cancer aged 52 in 2013 after it had spread to her brain, lungs, liver and bones.
Linda’s husband Brian also died from skin cancer in 2007.
Previously, she told Good Morning Britain anchor Richard Madeley anchor of her emotional mindset when she was told the bad news.
She said: “Yeah I won’t lie, there are moments when I am in a heap in the corner crying and I try not to say, ‘Why me?’, because why not me?
“So many people are suffering with this terrible disease, but I talk about it and I always have because maybe I can help someone at home who is on their own.
“It’s okay to cry, it’s okay to feel angry, it’s okay to feel sorry for yourself but just don’t let it overtake you because then cancer’s winning everything, it’s taking your life from you.
“But yes, anger is there. You think, ‘How much more?’ And again, I don’t wanna push it on anybody else’s family but we’ve had such a lot of it in our family.
“So much heartbreak through it that sometimes you do go, ‘What have I done to deserve this?’ But I won’t let it beat me in that respect.”