Amy Dowden says she’s ‘crushed’ as she’s rushed back to hospital in new cancer scare

23 August 2024, 10:35 | Up to date: 23 August 2024, 13:58

Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden has revealed her return to the present was thrown into jeopardy when she not too long ago had one other most cancers scare.

After being identified with an ‘aggressive’ for of breast most cancers in Might 2023, she underwent a mastectomy, chemotherapy and fertility remedy.

She was advised in February this yr that she had ‘no proof of illness’.

However in a brand new documentary Strictly Amy: Most cancers and Me, she is awaiting information on whether or not she will probably be properly sufficient to return to the present after a yr off – when she receives worrying information after a routine MRI scan.

Docs inform her they’ve detected “a number of little dots” within the scan that counsel calcification and a “change occurring within the breast”. Her physician warned her it may very well be an indication of breast most cancers returning.

She stated she was “crushed” and had sleepless nights whereas ready for the information.

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She undergoes a biopsy and tells the documentary cameras: “I’m feeling actually anxious and anxious as a result of it clearly introduced again recollections of every little thing I went via a yr in the past.”

“However I’ve simply gotta try to stay constructive and never take myself to these worrying locations.”

Nonetheless the biopsy reveals the ‘dots’ are benign modifications and there was no most cancers detected.

“I’m so relieved. It appears like I’m let out,” she stated.

Dowden stated: “Prior to now yr, I’ve had a mastectomy, fertility remedy, chemotherapy, sepsis, blood clots, a damaged foot and at last it’s time for me to get again on that dancefloor.”

Strictly has been mired in controversy in latest months with two of the present’s skilled dancers – Giovanni Pernice and Graziano Di Prima – leaving amid allegations about their behaviour.

Pernice has denied any wrongdoing – and Di Prima’s spokesman confirmed the star kicked movie star accomplice Zara McDermott as soon as throughout rehearsals final yr.