Coleen Nolan has revealed the sad news that she has been diagnosed with skin cancer.
The news comes after the 58 year old’s sisters have also revealed they too have been diagnosed with a form of cancer.
Her sister Bernie sadly passed away from breast cancer in 2013 at the age of 52 while Linda announced the news this year that her cancer had spread to her brain. Their other sister Anne was diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time three years ago but is now cancer-free.
Speaking on Loose Women, Coleen said her other sister Maureen would often point out a “tiny bit of skin” of Coleen’s shoulder that was a “bit red” and she decided to get it looked at.
The singer went on to say that she was seeing a dermatologist about a separate issue when they said the spot was common skin cancer basal cell carcinoma.
She said on the show: “I went back in and he was very good and he said, ‘Look, it’s nothing to worry about. It is actually a cancer that doesn’t necessarily spread, but you do need to treat it and we’ll try it with cream and then the chemo cream and then if that doesn’t work, we’ll cut it out and give you a skin graft’.“My first instinct, typical me, was to laugh hysterically because I just thought that’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard anybody say.
“I’m sick of cancer and also, my first instinct was, I’m not telling anybody in my family because this that I’ve got at the moment seems nothing compared to what my sisters have been though.
“And… what Linda is going through, where it has gone to her brain and she’s having chemo.
“It just seemed so pathetic for some reason to go back and go, ‘Oh yeah, I’ve got a carcinoma’.”
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