Overview

• She opened the NHS letter with trepidation and burst into tears upon learning her scans showed no trace of disease.
• Her first breast cancer diagnosis arrived in 2000, followed by a recurrence nearly two decades later that she overcame with chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery.
• Nolan lost sisters Bernie in 2013 and Linda in January 2025 to the same illness, a loss she said made her all-clear news especially poignant.
• Isolation during COVID-19 treatment left her struggling with anxiety about dying, and she continues to manage those fears with prescribed medication.
• She plans to seize new opportunities by visiting Krakow’s camps, learning an instrument and a language, and finally taking swimming lessons.