Nadezda Biljic Has Cancer, Toma Panic Reveals Treatment

Toma Panic, husband of singer Nadezda Biljic, announced on September 8, 2026, that his wife had spent a year fighting cancer. The news came in a social media post, in which he also laid out the full course of her treatment, something the public had not known about until then.

The illness was discovered a year earlier, and the family decided not to tell anyone outside their closest circle. Right after learning of the diagnosis, Nadezda went ahead with a concert that had already been scheduled. She never canceled a performance, not then and not later.

She later ended up in the hospital in Valjevo. A month after that she was admitted to the oncology ward. She was treated with radiation, and the therapy worked. Regular checkups lie ahead of her.

Along with the post, Toma laid out a timeline of the fight, saying it had all started in February. Over the course of the entire year, he said, not one performance was skipped or postponed, even as the family went through its hardest period.

“From the first day we found out Nadezda had cancer, I first told the family that we should all act as though nothing was happening and as though it didn’t exist, and it was the same with all our other obligations, not a single performance was skipped or postponed,” Toma Panic, husband of singer Nadezda Biljic, wrote in his social media post.

In the same post he asked his followers to be considerate of the people around them, no matter what things look like from the outside.

“Be kind, because that kindness can mean a lot to someone, you never know what someone is going through,” Toma Panic wrote.

What Toma Said After the Post

The couple faced public criticism during the treatment, precisely because Nadezda kept singing and working as she had before the diagnosis. In a statement to the media after the post, Toma kept it brief and declined to share further details, leaving that to Nadezda herself.

“but the most important thing is that she’s doing well, thanks for asking,” Toma Panic, husband of singer Nadezda Biljic, said in a statement to the media after the post.

He added that it was the singer herself who carried the strength through the whole fight.

“She’s the one who’s the fighter,” Toma Panic said.

Asked about the people who attacked them during the treatment, the singer’s husband was blunt.

“I don’t care about them, I’m completely uninterested. Everyone carries their own conscience,” Toma Panic, husband of singer Nadezda Biljic, said in a statement to the media, about the people who attacked them.

Their Son Doesn’t Know About the Illness

Their son doesn’t know about his mother’s illness. The boy has now started preschool, the preparatory program ahead of starting school. Toma added, with a smile, that he and Nadezda are themselves about to go back to first grade next year, this time as parents, when their son starts school.

The family, in Toma’s words, was their biggest support throughout the year. The details her husband revealed completely change the picture of the past twelve months of her career. Every concert, every guest appearance and every recorded song came together while Nadezda was, at the same time, going through radiation and waiting on the results of her therapy.

Toma also announced that Nadezda would soon speak out on her own and tell her side of the story. Until then, he said, he did not want to reveal more than he already had in the first post.

The news traveled across domestic outlets within hours, and the reaction from followers has mostly been supportive. Until now, Nadezda Biljic had been seen publicly as a singer with an unbroken schedule of shows, with nothing to suggest that behind it stood a year-long fight with a serious illness.