Lynette Bolton, wife of AFL champion Jude Bolton, opens up on cancer battle
TV personality Lynette Bolton — the wife of Sydney Swans champion Jude Bolton — has opened up on her recent battle with an aggressive form of breast cancer.
Lynette, the star of Channel 7’s Travel Oz show, started chemotherapy six days before Christmas after discovering a lump on her right breast about 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,” Lynette told News Corp.
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She said the weeks following that diagnosis were “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.”
She said she did not want to tell her two children about the cancer and only confided in Jude.
Now, she is facing 12 rounds of chemo treatment and has already completed two.
The treatment is a combination of immunotherapy and chemotherapy and after the 12 rounds there is the possibility of an additional 12 rounds, which is called “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.”
When her therapy started before Christmas, Lynette said it “certainly wasn’t on my 2025 bingo card” but “it is what it f***** is”.
She said it happened “really bloody fast” and she wasn’t scared, “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.”
Originally published on 7NEWS Sport
