Coronation Street icon Beverley Callard has shared an update on her breast cancer treatment as she explained the symptoms she has been suffering
Beverley Callard spoke about her treatment(Image: Instagram/ @sixoclockshow)
Beverley Callard has shared a health update as she continues to fight breast cancer. The Coronation Street icon, 69, revealed the toll the treatment is having on her body, admitting she is “quite badly burnt”.
The I’m A Celeb star announced earlier this year that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer around the time she joined RTE soap Fair City.
Bev, who is best known for playing Liz McDonald on the Corrie cobbles, continues to share updates with her concerned fans and isn’t hiding away from what is going on.
She updated her fans while appearing on Irish chat show The Six O’Clock Show, and said of her condition: “Nausea, really tired and just wiped out a little bit. And I’m quite badly burnt. But I’m coping really well, actually.”
It comes after she recently revealed she has finished her radiotherapy treatment. She went on: “I got through it amazingly well. I didn’t have any time off work. I didn’t miss a day. So I was really sort of proud of myself for that.”
She is now back at work and added: “I don’t know the actual prognosis yet, I see my oncologist again in two weeks time. So I’ll know more then, but I’m doing well.”
Beverley then revealed people had told her she shouldn’t work, but she insisted that if she didn’t, she would “just sit and feel sorry” for herself.
“Believe me, I’ve done that as well, as we all do. But I need my mind to be occupied,” she said. “If I’ve got lines to learn, it really helps. And believe me, I’ve had loads to learn, so it’s been good.”
Days earlier she had revealed the shock she felt when she was first diagnosed. Speaking on RTE Radio 1, she said: “They told me and they said it was cancer.
“It was just numb really, it took a little while for it to sink in. I just decided to keep going to work, mainly because, you just sit at home thinking about it. I worked all that day, and the next day and the next day because there was nothing I could do.”
“I finished radiotherapy a couple of weeks ago. I don’t have the results yet, I’ve got to wait, I don’t know what the prognosis is and the next steps are but I coped with the radiotherapy well.
“I said to the staff that I thought I’d done well because I’d not missed any work and let anyone down. They said ‘Yeah but the worst is yet to come.'”
She added: “The side effects come a bit later. Burnt skin, I was very nauseous, so tired, it wipes you and I didn’t think I would be.
“[The treatment] isn’t frightening, the thought of cancer is frightening, but I have met the most wonderful people through this.”
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