Toma Panic Hid Nadezda Biljic's Cervical Cancer Diagnosis

Singer Nadezda Biljic and her husband Toma Panic appeared on the Amidzi Show on TV Pink and spoke publicly for the first time about her battle with cervical cancer. The singer had the disease and was treated with radiation, and Toma revealed that he had kept the real diagnosis from her for a long time.

It all started the moment Nadezda went for additional checkups. Toma decided there would be no talk of her health in their home, and he hid from his wife that cancer was even suspected until the two of them went to the medical panel. Only there was she officially told the diagnosis.

“She didn’t know she had cancer… She didn’t know until she came to the medical panel, I hid it from her,” Toma Panic said on the Amidzi Show.

Nadezda says that, even so, she suspected from the very beginning that something was wrong with her body, even though the diagnosis had not yet formally been made known to her.

“I can tell what something is just from a runny nose, I’ve never been wrong. I knew from the start it was cervical cancer, I had the accompanying symptoms,” Nadezda Biljic said on the same show.

The singer did not stop working during treatment. She went straight from radiation sessions to performances, on the advice of doctors who told her to keep working as much as she could.

“I went straight from radiation therapy to a gig. The doctors advised me that I should keep working,” Nadezda said.

The hardest moment in the whole story, the singer says, was that very first medical panel, when the diagnosis became official and final. Toma was by her side from day one and says he devoted himself completely to her treatment, even at the cost of putting his career on the back burner.

“I gave a hundred percent for her. We devoted almost everything to her career,” Toma Panic said.

The couple did not stop at their own story by the end of the appearance. Nadezda appealed to all women to get regular gynecological checkups regardless of age, since a tumor marker test alone does not detect cervical cancer. In her words, only a regular checkup with a gynecologist can catch the disease in time, before it progresses.

Nadezda Biljic and Toma Panic have a son together, and various stories have circulated about their relationship in recent years. With this appearance, they told, for the first time in their own words, what they were actually going through while the public followed only the outward part of the story: her performances and his presence at her side, without ever knowing the real reason behind it.