LINDA NOLAN ON WHY SHE
CANCER-STRICKEN Linda Nolan will turn down chemotherapy so she can live the last months of her life pain-free – after seeing the agony sister Bernie went through.
Linda was diagnosed as incurable a year ago this week and has no idea how long her illness will remain treatable.
Now she reveals she could not bear the same ordeal her sister faced as she died of secondary breast cancer five years ago.
Yesterday in our sister paper the Daily Mirror, the 59-year-old singer told how she wants to live more than ever.
But she wants that life to be as enjoyable as possible, partying with friends and family, and even enjoying a little revenge on those who’ve wronged her.
“If the cancer spreads and they offer me chemotherapy to give me an extra few months, I would turn it down after what Bernie went through,” she said.
“She was a fighter, but the last couple of months of her life were really difficult. She was in terrible pain.
“I’d rather have a couple of months feeling OK instead of the chemo making me feel awful. I want to enjoy the last months of my life to the full.”
Linda – one of the six Nolan Sisters – first found a lump in her breast in 2005, and was told she had an aggressive stage three cancer.
After gruelling treatment she was given the all-clear a year later, but 12 months ago she was told the disease was back and she had secondary cancer in her hip. The same condition claimed 52-year-old Bernie’s life in 2013 after it spread to her lungs, liver and brain.
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