BRENDA Edwards has discussed the shock she felt after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, and the lasting side effects she deals with each day. The 55-year-old Loose Women and musical theatre star rose to fame in 2005 after finishing fourth on The X Factor, but ten years later she received a diagnosis she hadn’t seen coming. 5 Brenda Edwards has discussed the shock she felt after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, and the lasting side effects she deals with each day.
Credit: Supplied 5 Brenda is a regular panellist on Loose Women Credit: Rex Brenda was performing as Motormouth Maybelle in 'Hairspray The Musical' during the time when she found what she describes as a “frozen pea” sized lump in her breast, while taking a shower. And when she got her diagnosis, the star said she had to take her phone along to record everything the oncologist was telling her, as she went “completely blank,” and also went alone. Brenda told The Sun: “When I was told I had cancer I went into a blank, and so when I went to see my oncologist, I took a phone with me, and I said ‘please can I record this because whatever you're about to say, I won’t remember it.
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