Coronation Street royalty Beverley Callard has been documenting her courageous battle against breast cancer, keeping fans up to date via her Instagram.

Beverley had relocated to Dublin, prior to undertaking her new role in Irish soap Fair City, where she explained that she heard she had cancer ‘literally 15 to 20 minutes before’ filming her first scenes for the show, with her consultant calling her as she waited in her dressing room.

‘I’d had some tests just before I left the UK. I was in my dressing room at Fair City, getting ready to go on, and I was quite nervous and thinking, ‘I hope everybody thinks I’m all right, and my consultant rang me and said, ‘You’ve got to come back to the UK,’ she explained while appearing on RTÉs The Late Late Show.

‘I said, ‘Well I can’t possibly, I’ve just taken a new job, I’m away for a month’. I was diagnosed with breast cancer. But I’m fine. I’m absolutely fine. My head was a bit mashed for the first few days. It’s very early stages, and I’m along with, thousands of other women as well.’

Beverley continued to film her journey, including an operation she underwent to remove lymph nodes and her recovery afterwards. Flooded with support from fans and co-stars alike, she’s been deeply praised for documenting the very real journey that so many women undertake after a formal breast cancer diagnosis.

This week, Beverley returned with another update.

‘Well, today has been a great day. I got to the hospital at 9am,’ she began the video.

‘Jon came in with me because, if you remember, last week I really didn’t want him to come in when they took the dressings off for the first time. Anyway, I saw my consultant, who was truly amazing, and she says I do not need to have the second operation.

‘I’ve still got the massive swelling under my arm, it’s about three inches long and one and half inches wide. But as opposed to being rock hard, it’s begun to soften so they said it’s turning into fluid now so it will slowly just release into my system and then out of my system so I’m really thrilled about that.

‘So, the next stage, is, in about four weeks, we will find out if she managed to get all the cancer out and we’ll also get the results of whether it was in the lymph nodes or not.

If I’m cancer-free, then, a few weeks after that, I will begin radiotherapy. If I’m not cancer-free, then we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it. But I have a feeling I will be. I don’t why I have that feeling but I just have.’

The good news means that Beverley can return to work, with some PR obligations prior to returning to filming at Fair City.

‘So it means that I will be doing all the PR stuff in London on Sunday and Monday, come back Tuesday, then on Thursday, I go back to Dublin and Saturday I begin working on Fair City again. I am dying for my scripts to come – I can’t wait!’

Beverley also revealed she’d taken some time for self care: ‘This afternoon, I went and had my roots done and Botox.

‘Do you know what? Any woman who is going through this – we are all f****** warriors and I hope you get good news as well.