Beverley Callard has revealed she thought she was 'losing' her cancer battle before receiving results that showed no stomach cancer. The Coronation Street star, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in February, had been waiting weeks for stomach biopsy results after experiencing symptoms including nausea.
Stomach Biopsy Results Bring Relief
The actress, known for playing Liz McDonald in the ITV soap, underwent surgery and a course of radiotherapy over the summer. After doctors advised further scans of her stomach, she was left in limbo for weeks and missed work for the first time due to feeling unwell.
In early November, Callard shared that the five-week wait for biopsy results had ended with the tests finding "chronic inflammation and H. pylori bacteria, but no stomach cancer whatsoever." She told followers that "the fight is back on."
Opening Up About Her Fears
In a video shared on Wednesday (November 11), Callard admitted the news took time to sink in. "As you know, I got the results of the biopsies on my stomach last week, and they said it's definitely not stomach cancer, which I was over the moon with," she said. "But I think it took a couple of days to sink in because we've been waiting all those weeks for the results."
She confessed that before the results, she had thought the worst. "I did have a few days before the results where I honestly thought, because I felt so ill with this stomach thing, I honestly thought, 'I'm losing the battle here.'" She recounted a moment at work when a colleague asked how she was doing, and she burst into tears, saying, "I'm losing the battle. I know I'm losing the battle."
Feeling Better and Looking Forward
Callard said she is now beginning to feel "quite a lot better" and has been speaking to others going through similar experiences. "Today has been a good day," she noted, adding that she was still too nauseous to go out in the evening.
She ended with a light-hearted remark about her 94-year-old mother-in-law drinking Jägerbombs and Black Russians while she stuck to water and tea, saying, "I will party again at some point. But I just am sending lots of love to everybody."
