Overview
- The Coronation Street actor, in a Thursday Instagram update, said surgeons removed her breast tumor but tests found cancer in the first of three lymph nodes.
- Her consultant at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital said the operation went well and that they cut the cancer out.
- Doctors sent the positive lymph node to a US lab to gauge how aggressive the disease is, with results expected in about two weeks.
- Those results will set her next step, which could be chemotherapy before radiotherapy or radiotherapy alone.
- She called the news a mix of relief and worry and said the waiting is hard, as she keeps fans updated during her ongoing TV appearances.