Strictly Come Dancing sweetheart Amy Dowden has emotionally revealed how undergoing treatment for breast cancer has resulted in the “toughest year” of her life.
The star, who will undergo her last chemotherapy session on Thursday explained how she was excitedly looking forward to being able to “ring that chemo bell”, at the end of her treatment cycle. “When I sat in that room and the doctors said, ‘Amy, yes you have cancer’, that was one stab, and then, ‘What’s your fertility plans?’, because I’ve got an oestrogen-fed cancer and they need to shut my ovaries down, basically, and my husband is next to me and we’ve only been married a couple of months.
She said: “You don’t get mammograms in the UK until you’re in your 50s, I would never have thought at 32 I was going to get diagnosed with breast cancer.