Leah Bracknell has given fans an important update, as she continues a new experimental treatment in an attempt to abate her terminal cancer.
The former Emmerdale actress, 54, is currently on a clinical trial to treat the cancer that is slowly killing her.
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Leah, who played Zoe Tate in the ITV soap, was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in 2016 and has kept her fans updated with her battle against the disease ever since.
She was tragically diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer – despite having not smoked for “decades and decades”.
Now, after trying a range of different treatments, Leah has revealed that a clinical trial she started last summer has stabilised what should have been an aggressive progression of the cancer.
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Instead of sharing photos of herself throughout treatment, Leah has instead been posting photos of blue latex gloves with drawn-on faces in her continued attempt to see the funny side of her diagnosis.
Two weeks ago, she revealed that she’s back in hospital for the next stage of the trial, sharing a picture of the latex glove puppets her nurses have been making to cheer her up before she has her injections.
She told her 1,321 Instagram followers: “A Spring Equinox rabbit-geez!!!? (It’s becoming a bit of a competition among the nurses on the trial!) aka an ice-filled latex glove for pre-jab numbing. Thank you C , this is one to beat!!”
Leah, who also trained as a yoga teacher, writes about her ongoing battle on her searingly honest blog Something Beginning With C and recently told followers she was “fed up” of living with cancer.
Leah, who lives with husband Jez Hughes with whom she has two children, said: “I am fed up. Actually that’s F.E.D. U.P. with a good half a dozen exclamation marks for emphasis.
“For fear of seeming to contradict more upbeat and positive blogs that I have written in the past, it would be disingenuous of me not to express the flip side.”
She went on to say: “Living with stage four cancer is not black and white […], there are sunny days and there are days when dark clouds glower ominously and oppressively. To sum up, I am fed up of being fed up. And I’d like a break please.”
Leah first revealed news of her devastating diagnosis in October 2016, later launching a GoFundMe page in the hope of raising £50,000 for pioneering treatment.
She’s also revealed that FOUR doctors missed her cancer.
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