TV personality Lynette Bolton – the wife of Sydney Swans premiership player Jude Bolton – has spoken publicly about her recent diagnosis of an aggressive form of breast cancer.
Bolton, who stars on Channel Seven’s Travel Oz, began chemotherapy six days before Christmas after discovering a lump in her right breast approximately four weeks earlier.
“It was the end of November and I was just having a shower, and just realised that there was a lump around 2.5 to 3cm and got onto it pretty quickly,” she told News Corp.
Bolton said it took about 10 days to receive a diagnosis, which confirmed she had triple-negative breast cancer – an aggressive form of the disease that is not hormone driven.
She described the period following the diagnosis as “crazy”.
“The different types of breast cancers react to different treatments,” she said.
“Mine is not hormone driven. Basically it’s aggressive and it’s quick growing.
“But what that means is it reacts well to chemo. So it’s quite voracious, but it actually responds quite well to treatment.”
Bolton said she chose not to immediately tell her two children about the diagnosis, confiding only in her husband.
She is now undergoing 12 rounds of combined immunotherapy and chemotherapy and has already completed two treatments. Following this, there is the possibility of an additional 12 rounds of chemotherapy, known as “the Red Devil”.
“It is a horrendous treatment,” she said.
“(But) this is not going to be the thing that knocks me off the perch.
“I’m really trying to be positive and look at silver linings.”
Reflecting on the timing of her diagnosis, Bolton said beginning treatment just before Christmas “certainly wasn’t on my 2025 bingo card”, but added “it is what it f***** is”.
She said the diagnosis and treatment unfolded “really bloody fast” and that she was not scared, but “mostly pissed off”.
“And if you’re reading this because you’re in the middle of something similar, you know how disorienting that speed is,” she said.
“I’m really not very good at being told to slow down.
“But I’m choosing to see this as a message from God and the Universe to take a breath, reassess and get crystal clear on what matters in 2026.”
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