“Linda Nolan hopeful ‘wonder drug’ will give her ‘more time’ in cancer battle”

Linda Nolan, the Irish singer who was diagnosed with incurable cancer six years ago, hopes to keep fighting her battle against cancer by taking a new “wonder drug” for her brain tumours. She first battled breast cancer in 2005, went into remission in the following year but was diagnosed with a secondary cancer in her hip in 2017, which spread to her liver in 2020. Doctors have advised her not to compare herself to her late sister Bernie, who died of breast cancer back in 2013 at the age of 52. Linda has completed 11 radiotherapy sessions and is now awaiting the results of a second MRI scan to see if her brain tumours have shrunk. She hopes the new chemotherapy drug Tucatinib will “give her more time”. The Nolan family has long been familiar with cancer, with Linda having lost her younger sister Bernie and her husband Brian to the disease. Anne, the eldest Nolan sister, has been battling the illness alongside Linda. The Nolan Sisters were an Anglo-Irish girl group with many hits between 1979 and 1982, including the much-loved song I’m In the Mood for Dancing.