Linda Nolan has revealed her brain tumours have grown and her cancer treatment has stopped working.
Linda, 65, said she “sobbed” after her consultant told her the news last week following the most recent scans.
It showed a growth of the two largest tumours at the front and left side of her brain, and a slight increase of smaller cancerous spots surrounding them.
The tumours have not returned to the size when they were first discovered, but it shows her treatment is no longer effective. However, the Nolan Sister singer remains positive and is set to try a new course of treatment.
Cancer update from Linda Nolan
She told the Mirror: “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.”
She said her balance “has been getting worse” with her sisters needing to “prompt her” when she gets lost in the middle of a sentence. Linda said the symptoms made her think “something was wrong”.
Maureen Nolan, 70, and a Macmillan Cancer support nurse were in the room with Linda when she found out the news.
“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?'”
The new treatment, which she starts today (August 28), will include Enhertu. The drug has been denied to women on the NHS in England with a different type of secondary breast cancer to Linda’s.
She said that while she’s grateful for a “plan B”, she’s also sad “not everyone is being allowed” the life-extending medication.
Linda is also preparing to lose her hair for the fifth time. However, she remains upbeat and declared: “But if it happens, I’ll just shave it again. Thankfully, he is not saying we can’t do anything for you. We have more places to go. I am ready to try anything. I have done this before and I can do it again.”
The Nolans singer has undergone immunotherapy every three weeks since March 2022
Linda’s cancer started when she was diagnosed in 2005, followed by incurable secondary breast cancer in her hip that was diagnosed in 2017. It then spread to her liver in 2020.
Linda received the heartbreaking news last spring that secondary breast cancer had spread to her brain.
The singer has been undergoing regular treatment that has shrunk and stabilised the tumours. Since discovering the brain tumours in March 2022, she has undergone immunotherapy every three weeks.
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