Linda Nolan, 65, has tragically passed after a long battle with secondary breast cancer - and Coleen Nolan, 59, previously revealed how her sisters’ cancer has impacted her. Columnist Linda first battled breast cancer in 2006, but it returned in 2017 when she was diagnosed with incurable secondary breast cancer in her hip, which has since spread to her liver and brain. Coleen and Linda’s sister Anne, 74, also battled breast cancer in 2000 and 2020, while sister Bernie died from the disease aged just 52 in 2013.
Considering how deeply her family has been impacted by cancer, Loose Women star Coleen opened up exclusively to the Mirror last year, and revealed that she compulsively checks and tests for signs of the disease. “We have had so much heartache... I’m always checking. I still have this thing when I think, ‘What if I have missed it?’” she shared.
The ITV star added: “Whenever I’m in the shower, I will have a good feel and check. And if there is ever a time when I think ‘I don’t like that’, I will go to the doctor straight away. And they will say ‘It’s fine, it’s a little cyst or an infection.’ But it’s obviously in our family. I hope I don’t get it, but I just want to think that if I do, I’ll get it early.”.
Coleen then spoke specifically about Linda, and how Linda’s actions informed her own proactive approach to checking for cancer. “Linda put off going way too long. And she admits that now. She didn’t go straight away, so by the time they found it... it was huge,” she recalled.
