Coleen Nolan returning to hospital for treatment as she shares major health update after cancer diagnosis
COLEEN Nolan has given a major health update after finding cancer on her shoulder last year.
The Loose Women star, whose family has been ravaged by the disease, revealed it has returned on another part of her body and doctors issued her with a terrifying warning.
She first underwent treatement last year for carcinoma, a type of low grade skin cancer, on her shoulder.
Coleen, who is currently on her solo tour, has since found a second suspicious patch of skin and told her if left untreated it would grow into the deadliest type of skin cancer, melanoma, which can spread to other parts of the body.
The 58-year-old star revealed today: “I got skin cancer last year.
“I had carcinoma on my shoulder which has now gone. And had chemo cream on my shoulder so that burned that off.
“And then I’ve got this tiny bit of dry skin. I’ve been saying for ages, it doesn’t matter how much oil or cream I put on it, it won’t go.
“But doctors said, ‘that is pre melanoma, it will turn into skin cancer which is worse that carcinoma.
“So I’m getting that treated when the tour ends.”
Nolan’s sister Linda is battling incurable brain cancer, and they lost their sister Bernie to breast cancer in 2010 aged 52.
Anne was the first Nolan sister to battle the disease.
“I’m not being funny I laughed when he said it because I thought, oh well of course I have, cancer loves my family,” Coleen told Scott Thomas on his podcast, Learning As I Go.
“When I said to Linda, ‘do you ever thing why me?’ She always says, ‘no, I always think why not me?’
“My sister has cancer in her brain so me coming home saying I’ve got pre melanoma seems dramatic and pathetic but it’s not, it’s really serious and if I don’t treat it it will be cancer.
“I can’t treat it before the tour, if he said I need to do that now I absolutely would have but I explained I’m going on tour and he said it does need treating I wouldn’t leave it years but it does need treating.”
Common signs of melanoma
LIKE with any cancer, survival rates are best when the illness is detected fast.
The most common sign of melanoma is the appearance of a new mole or a change in an existing mole.
- Mole with a mix of colours
- Large mole
- Mole that changes over time
- Swollen mole
- Bleeding mole
- Itchy mole
- Crusty mole
- Mole in the shape of a line under a nail
In women, the most common specific location for melanoma skin cancers in the UK is the legs.
Men are more likely to see melanomas in their trunk – the back or torso.