The Coronation Street star appeared on Loose Women on Wednesday (February 11) as she celebrates 40 years on the hit ITV soap
Monde Mwitumwa TV and Celebrity Reporter
14:23, 11 Feb 2026
Sally appeared on today’s edition on Loose Women (Image: ITV)
Coronation Street’s Sally Dynevor has candidly discussed her harrowing battle with cancer, confessing it “changed my life completely”.
The soap icon, who recently marked 40 years on the famous cobbles, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009. Following a lumpectomy and six months of chemotherapy, she made a full recovery.
In a twist of fate, Sally’s on-screen character, Sally Metcalfe, mirrored her real-life ordeal as she too was diagnosed with breast cancer.
During Wednesday’s (February 11) episode of Loose Women, Sally joined panellists Christine Lampard, Janet Street Porter and Coleen Nolan. The conversation soon turned to her health struggle after Corrie co-star Beverley Callard recently disclosed that she has breast cancer.
Sally confessed that her diagnosis “completely changed her life.”, reports the Daily Star.
Sally Dynevor has opened up on her devastating cancer battle(Image: ITV)
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She remembered: “My character had breast cancer and I had to tell Carla Connor (played by Alison King) that Sally had breast cancer. That was a very, very difficult scene because I knew I was leaving at that point.”
The actress expressed: “I wanted to carry on working. I didn’t want to stop, but the moment that I was told I needed chemo that’s the moment that I realised that actually this is serious.
“But hopefully for Bev, she’s caught this early so she will be hopefully back at work and carrying on doing what she’s doing.
“It’s very hard for women because if you’re a working mum and the breadwinner, then you want to carry on. You need to be working.”
In a poignant moment, Sally acknowledged that her on-screen storyline was the primary reason she chose to get examined.
Sally is celebrating 40 years on Coronation Street
She explained: “I’ve still not come to terms that it happened and maybe if I hadn’t had the storyline, maybe I wouldn’t have checked because I was only 46.”
She continued: “I thought it was, you know, much older women but it’s not. I mean thank goodness there’s much more information out there now than there was 15 years ago when I got it. But now we’re talking about it, which is very important.”
She added: “I remember my first day back on the street after having eight months off or six months off and walking down the cobbles and going.
“I am so grateful for this because once you have something taken away from you. You think that’s it, and then to get it back is just, wow, I mean, you don’t take it for granted.”
Coronation Street airs Monday to Friday at 8:30pm on ITV1 and ITVX and Loose Women airs weekdays from 12:30pm on ITV1 and ITVX
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