Linda and Anne Nolan say they are both battling cancer at the same time
Linda and Anne Nolan have revealed they're both battling cancer at the same time
Linda and Anne Nolan have revealed they're both battling cancer at the same time.
The sisters, who are both part of pop group The Nolans, are fighting the disease that killed their sister Bernie seven years ago. She was just 52.
Linda's incurable cancer is in her liver and she previously battled breast cancer in 2006, cellulitis and lymphoedema in her arm in 2007 and secondary cancer on her pelvis in 2017.
Anne, 69, has stage three breast cancer, the most serious being stage four.
They both received their diagnoses within days of each other shortly after they finished filming for their hit TV series The Nolans Go Cruising.
They even endured a round of chemotherapy together at Blackpool's Victoria Hospital last month.
Both Linda, 61, and Anne have now lost their hair.
"I don't want to die. I love my life so much," Anne tearfully told The Sun.
Linda says losing her hair reminds her of their late sister Bernie.
She said: "I look in the mirror now and I see Bernie, because I think we're so alike anyway and it just brings back all of her trauma and how sick she was."
Maureen Nolan has now moved in with Anne to take care of her, while Linda is staying at Denise's house.
The sisters are both having six rounds of the treatment in total.
Anne will then have either a mastectomy or lumpectomy.
This will most likely followed by radiotherapy.
And Linda has developed a sense of humour about the situation, joking: "Forget the Chemical Brothers, we've become the Chemo Sisters."
The Nolans formed in 1974 with Linda, Anne, Bernie, Maureen and Denise in the band.
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