Coronation Street’s Tracy Shaw shares fresh update on cancer battle and reveals doctors ‘concerns’ on side effects

CORONATION Street’s Tracy Shaw has shared a fresh update on her cancer battle and revealed doctors are ‘concerned’ after a number of worrying side effects. Tracy, 53, revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer in April after finding a lump in her breast. Coronation Street’s Tracy Shaw has shared a fresh update on her cancer battle and revealed doctors are ‘concerned’ after a number of worrying side effects Credit: Tracy Shaw/Instagram Tracy revealed that her nails, skin and feet are swollen and shredding Credit: Tracy Shaw/Instagram The brave Coronation Street star took to Instagram to share an update with her followers after meeting her oncologist and having her fifth chemotherapy session. Tracy said: “It is taking its toll on my body. My heart is fine which I’m just over the moon about, thank you God. Sign up for the Coronation Street newsletter Thank you! “And the organs are okay but my body because I’m about to come into the fifth bout of shingles with no break, and no matter what medication I take, even though it assists in drying the ones that are present up – more come out. “So it’s been a consistent wearing on my nerve endings basically. Tracy revealed that her treatment is consistently wearing on her nerve endings Credit: Tracy Shaw/Instagram The star just before starting her chemo treatment Credit: Instagram @tracy.k.shaw She revealed that her heart and organs are all fine during her chemo treatment Credit: Getty Tracy played the role of Maxine Peacock on long-running ITV soap Coronation Street between 1995 and 2003 Credit: PA:Press Association “I’ve done some pictures of my hands swell and my nails coming off and splitting and my skin on the underneath of my feet, it’s all shredding and peeling. “It’s just one of the side effects really that is concerning him, the oncologist, before surgery.” Tracy then explained that if they decide to give her the full whack of chemotherapy on round six it may postpone her surgery because her body won’t be well enough to fight it. Brave Tracy revealed that her immune system is low and it’s about to go lower due to her treatment but that she is determined to remain positive. Most read in TV She added: “For now I am just taking one day at a time, one symptom, one side affect, at a time. “I don’t particularly enjoy this period but I am going with it and I am waiting to hear about my appointment for the surgery which you know I’m really looking forward to. “Just having the tumours removed and then heading back in the chemo room.” Tracy ended her update by thanking everyone and explained she would update all in about three weeks’ time. Earlier this month, Tracy told her fans that she was feeling absolute rubbish after her fourth round of chemo. It came just a week after Tracy let her followers know that she was recovering from a difficult ‘wobble’. The wobble stemmed from an earlier distressing update where Tracy shared that surgery wasn’t an option for her in her current condition. Tracy played the role of Maxine Peacock on long-running ITV soap Coronation Street between 1995 and 2003. Comment now