‘I’m scared of getting breast cancer but I can’t worry myself to death,’ says Coleen Nolan
ok.co.ukColeen Nolan has seen her family blighted by breast cancer. Since her older sister Anne was first told she had the disease 23 years ago, sisters Linda and Bernie also received their diagnoses.
Sadly, Bernie died in 2013, and bravely speaking to OK! about how breast cancer has affected her loved ones, Coleen admits that the Nolan family get through it all by finding a glimmer of light in dark times. “Breast cancer has hit my family so much that it’s laughable,” she says. “We get through it all with humour, because what has happened to us is a joke. “Just when you think it can’t hit us anymore, it comes back and whacks us again.
If it was a film you’d think it was an unrealistic storyline because surely so much couldn’t happen to one family. But it does and it has.” In 2000, Anne, now 72, was diagnosed with breast cancer and had treatment.
Linda, 64, was diagnosed in 2005 and had a mastectomy in 2006, while Bernie was diagnosed in 2010. “Anne’s diagnosis hit me like a ton of bricks,” Coleen, 58, tells us. “Luckily she caught it so early.
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