Emmerdale star Malandra Burrows diagnosed with stage three breast cancer

OHMYGOSSIP — Malandra Burrows has been diagnosed with stage three breast cancer.
The 56-year-old actress – who is best known for having played Kathy Glover on ITV soap opera ‘Emmerdale’ from 1985 until 2001 – found a lump in her left breast earlier this year and is set to undergo a course of chemotherapy over the next six months.
She said: “I just happened to catch myself [while exercising] and thought: ‘Good grief, what’s that?’ I thought it must be a gland, but a few days later it was still there, so I rang my GP and they asked if I could come in the next hour.”
Despite initially being dismissed by her GP, the former soap star had a follow-up scan explained she was being greeted by a Macmillian nurse and she just “knew” it was bad news.
She told OK! Magazine: “A week later I was at the hospital and the first consultant told me it was a cyst. He said: ‘I won’t be seeing you again.’ The relief I felt. But then the consultant said they needed to see me as soon as possible and added, ‘Could you bring someone with you? But I thought I’ve got to take this on my own. I’m single, and I felt I couldn’t do that to a friend.When I went in, I found myself greeted by a Macmillan nurse and I just knew.”
The former ‘I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here’ contestant – who has never married but was previously in a relationship with ‘Emmerdale’ co-star Ian Sharrock – went on to reveal that she is determined to get through it as she takes things “day by day.”
She said: “She nearly broke down telling me, but I just went, ‘Don’t be daft! We’ll get through it and I’m going to ring that bell [to celebrate the end of treatment].’ It’s just day by day. I might have a good day, then five bad days, I just have to take them as they come. You’ve got to make nice moments, they become so precious. Even though they might be so simple, when you’ve got cancer, they become wonderful, momentous ones. I’ve kind of gone into combat mode. If I look back, I’ve given it everything I can and that’s all I can do. I hate to say it, but when it’s your life at stake you’re prepared to do everything to get through. That’s helped me focus.”

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