Amy Dowden has revealed doctors have found “another type of cancer”, just weeks after her original diagnosis of breast cancer.
The Welsh native joined the line-up of Strictly Come Dancing pros in 2017.
The 32-year-old found a lump while preparing for her honeymoon with her husband Ben back in April.
On Friday, during an Instagram Live with breast cancer survivor and Paralympic gold medalist Erin Kennedy, Amy shared that cancer had been found elsewhere in her body.
“For me, my journey, everything changed. I was originally going to have a lumpectomy, radiotherapy and hormone treatment,” the 32-year-old said.
“But then, after my MRI, they found another tumour so then it changed into a mastectomy and then, after my mastectomy, unfortunately, they found even more tumours.”
“And my pathology wasn’t what they were expecting, and they found another type of cancer and then they told me I needed chemo – for me that was a massive blow.”
“It wasn’t in the plan, originally – and I know the plan you can’t get fixated on,” Amy continued. “So, all of a sudden, then I realised, and you get scared, but the oncologist did say that with chemo I’ve got a really good chance of a cure.”
“I was really scared and I didn’t want to do chemo but then seeing someone like yourself [Erin] who’s carried on and for me straightaway it was my dancing, like, you can take away my boob but you can’t take my dancing away from me and that’s what I get really upset about.”
“This year it means I’m not going to be able to dance with a celebrity on Strictly but I’m in such regular contact with the team. The BBC have just been utterly incredible. We are just one big family and they’re going to be guided by me and there’s so many ways to be involved in the show.”
“I’m just staying really positive and hopeful that I’m still going to be part of the show in some way and my aim is to continue dancing – the oncologist said to me movement is really, really good for people on chemo, it’s important. So that was encouraging.”
