Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden has confessed she would not be right here as we speak with out the tv present.
The dancer, 34, was declared cancer-free early this 12 months after being recognized with the illness in 2023.
Dowden discovered a lump in her breast and needed to pause her function in final 12 months’s Strictly Come Dancing competitors, sometimes making visitor appearances as she obtained remedy.
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The TV character has addressed her prognosis with Radio Occasions, revealing she owes the dancing present her life.
“Finally, Strictly saved my life,” she admitted whereas reflecting on when she labored with the breast most cancers charity Coppafeel.
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Dowden and her dancing associate Tom Fletcher braved a hike on the Pembrokeshire coast in Wales in 2022 to boost cash for breast most cancers analysis.
The Strictly star says this work allowed her to raised perceive the best way to take care of herself.
“I used to be 32 years outdated. I used to be a bodily match dancer on Strictly, I would just obtained married. Mammograms do not begin till you are in your 50s,” she confessed.
“[But] I met some unimaginable individuals on that journey who’d had breast most cancers of their 20s. I used to be pondering, ‘I am being a hypocrite, trekking to boost consciousness for checking your self, and I do not even do it!'”
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The expertise led Dowden to often give herself self-examinations, and simply months later, she discovered a lump and was recognized with breast most cancers.
In November 2023, Dowden took to Instagram to share that she had completed her chemotherapy and replicate on her most cancers expertise.
“My hardest journey but! These previous few months I look again and assume how did my physique get via this each bodily and mentally.
“From the phrases I am so sorry Amy, it is most cancers and what’s your fertility plans. To having a mastectomy, two weeks later hormone day by day injections for egg retrieval, a bit of Crohns flare up after which on to chemo plus shutting down my ovaries on the identical day which sadly result in sepsis, blood clots, shedding my hair, my eyebrows, lashes (I’ve just a few hanging in there) and three toe nails 🤣.
Her submit concluded: “Now please bear in mind to test yourselves, should you aren’t who’s?!”
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