Strictly’s Amy Dowden reveals new cancer scare

Amy Dowden has stated her return to Strictly Come Dancing was thrown into doubt after one other most cancers scare.

The 34-year-old skilled dancer, who was twice identified with most cancers final 12 months, was rushed again to hospital for additional checks as medical doctors have been involved about abnormalities in her breast after a check-up.

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

But when getting the all-clear from her guide, Amy instructed him “we have not had excellent news a lot, so thanks.”

Her newest well being fear was captured by BBC cameras filming Strictly Amy: Cancer and Me, which documented her journey from preliminary prognosis to her Strictly return this autumn.

“It was a scare, such a worrying time,” Amy stated.

“I’ll always remember them calling me to say we’re sorry however we have seen one thing we do not just like the look of.

She had simply danced in entrance of an viewers for the primary time in a 12 months when the outcomes of her annual MRI and mammogram put her “again on maintain”.

Tests revealed widespread calcium deposits in one among her breasts and medical doctors have been apprehensive it might be the “precursor to invasive breast most cancers”.

“We’re so devastated for Amy once more,” her dad Richard instructed the documentary.

“It’s one other blow, he added. “For us, it has taken fairly a toll. I simply want I might have all of it for her.”

Amy, is from Caerphilly, instructed the documentary the most recent scare made her “anxious” and “introduced again the entire recollections” of what she went by means of the 12 months earlier than.

“It felt crushing, I felt sick to my core and so many sleepless nights apprehensive,” she added.

But the additional checks proved the abnormalities have been benign adjustments and she or he admitted to being “so relieved it was unreal”.

The all-clear has given a now excited Amy to focus absolutely on her return to Strictly, the BBC’s flagship Saturday night time TV present which has hit the headlines for the unsuitable causes in latest months.

Two of Strictly’s skilled dancers – Giovanni Pernice and Graziano Di Prima – left the present amid allegations about their behaviour.

Pernice has denied any wrongdoing whereas Di Prima’s spokesman confirmed the star kicked superstar associate Zara McDermott as soon as throughout rehearsals final 12 months.

But Amy, who joined Strictly in 2017, stated returning to well-known dancefloor was one of many largest motivations of getting by means of her most cancers ordeal.

“I’m a correct household woman, I would not have been itching to get by means of my most cancers journey to get again on Strictly if it wasn’t a present made up of pure love, pleasure and happiness,” she stated.

“For me, it is my completely satisfied place. My coronary heart is so completely satisfied to be again.

“The help I had final 12 months from the present was unbelievable, producers ringing me each single week to make me really feel like a part of the staff as a result of they knew I wanted it.

“And after I was on the oncology unit final 12 months, everybody was speaking about Strictly – the nation loves it and it offers individuals one thing to sit up for. I felt so proud I’m a part of that present.”

Amy stated Strictly saved her life, as a result of a breast most cancers charity stroll with Giovanna Fletcher, the spouse of her dance associate McFly singer Tom Fletcher in 2021, prompted her to examine her personal breasts.

“To be again on the dancefloor shall be tremendous magical. It’s the very best present on this planet and I pinch myself each day that I’m a part of it.”