Coleen Nolan gives cancer update as she feared she was 'wasting doctors time' before diagnosis

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Loose Women star Coleen Nolan has updated her colleagues and viewers on Tuesday's instalment of the ITV show following her skin cancer diagnosis as she feared she was "wasting" her "doctor's time" before being diagnosed with the disease.It comes as the 58-year-old panellist heartbreakingly shared that she has been diagnosed with skin cancer after doctors recently found she had the common skin cancer basal cell carcinoma, reports the Mirror.Coleen explained: "It was a carcinoma and then the melanoma on my face is something that is pre-cancerous melanoma that if I don't sort it then much later on in life, it will turn to skin cancer.

I was trying to highlight the importance of it if you've got anything that you're a bit worried about get it checked."Coleen's co-star Charlene White revealed that her pals diagnosis encouraged her to follow up an appointment with her doctor after discovering an unexplained "mark" on her leg.She said: "I've got like a little mark on my leg and I called the doctor and the doctor referred me and I hadn't chased up the referral to get an appointment but as soon as I read about what you did yesterday, I immediately picked up the phone called and booked an appointment, because I needed someone to remind me how important that is."Coleen continued: "You feel silly going with something that is not hurting you. ‘There's no pain to it, i's not making you ill or anything, oh, I don't want to waste anyone's time, it’s probably is a bit of eczema.’ But if you don't know what it is, you just need them to say it's fine or if not they've caught it early."On Monday, Coleen revealed a dermatologist first stumbled across the cancerous spot on her shoulder during an appointment which was made for a separate