Anne was first diagnosed with breast cancer 23 years ago.
Coleen Nolan has seen her family tormented by cancer after her oldest sister Since then, Linda and Bernie have also been diagnosed with the disease.
In 2000, Anne, who is now 72, was also diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent treatment. Then, in 2005, Linda was diagnosed and mastectomy in 2006, while Bernie was diagnosed in 2010. “Losing Bernie was a massive blow to the family. If there was a party to be had, Bernie would find it. If there was a reason to get us all together, she would do it. She was the smallest of us all, but she was the most enigmatic.”
With the family’s ethos being to find the good in things, Coleen explains that although she “dreads” the disease and is “scared” of it, she does her best to combat any feelings of anxiety before they grow. “Obviously I do worry about it because it’s very much in my family, so it does make me think about it more than I ever did before any of them got breast cancer. Before then I thought something like this would never happen to me,” she admits. “At first, Linda had moments where she questioned, ‘Why me?’ But now she says, ‘Why not me?’ I try not to think about it every day because, genuinely, it would stop me from living.
Coleen has made it her mission to teach her three children about looking out for the signs and symptoms of cancer.
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