Linda Nolan told how sister Bernie tried to save her from beyond grave
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The Nolan family has tragically lost two sisters to cancer, first Bernie in 2013 and now Linda Nolan. Aged 65, The Daily Mirror Columnist passed away with her family at her side on Wednesday. Her final moments were said to have been full of 'love and comfort'. The much-loved singer, who formed part of the hit girl group The Nolans, died of secondary breast cancer after first being diagnosed 20 years ago.
She was first told she had the disease in 2005 and went into remission a year later. But in 2017, she devastatingly announced she had been diagnosed with secondary cancer in her hip - and it's through her late sister she believed the discovery came about.
The finding came four years after Bernie's shock death, aged 52. Bernie had first announced she had been diagnosed with breast cancer in April 2010. In October of the same year, the singer was declared cancer-free following a mastectomy, chemotherapy and treatment with Herceptin. She announced in February 2012 that she was no longer taking cancer treatment drugs.
However, by the end of October 2012, Bernie's cancer had returned. Doctors told her that the disease was in her left breast, brain, lungs, liver and bones before her death a year later. In Linda's case, it was only after going to hospital following a fall down the stairs that she learned of her shock secondary diagnosis.
