Strictly Come Dancing's Amy Dowden opens up on terrifying wait for surgery after cancer diagnosis

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Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden recently revealed that she had been diagnosed with grade three, aggressive breast cancer and just last week she underwent a single mastectomy.Amy, 32, spoke exclusively to our sister newspaper The Mirror for her first interview since that frightening diagnosis, and admitted hesitantly “this is the first day I have felt like Amy”.Amy told of the devastating blows she’s weathering and admits a close friend helped her get ready because the surgery has rendered her, for now, unable even to turn the handle in her shower.The professional dancer returned home from hospital last Friday.

Surgeons removed two tumours and three further cancer “specks”, plus some lymph nodes, from her right breast, which have now been sent for analysis.She said: “The cancer is in the lab now, which is the most important thing.“The hardest time was waiting for surgery, thinking ‘I have cancer inside me’.“You’re thinking ‘It’s grade three, what if it’s spreading, what if it spreads tonight?’“The feeling of it made me feel disgusted, disgusting.

That’s the time I was randomly crying, emotional.“But we drove away and I thought, ‘It’s gone’.“I’m a doer, I feel we have done something.”Amy must now wait until next week for her histology report to tell her what stage her cancer is at, and if it has spread.

Only then will she know what treatment is needed.Just three weeks ago Amy told her online followers that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, after feeling a lump in her breast just a day before she flew on a belated honeymoon with her husband Ben Jones in April.The couple, dance partners who run a dance school near their West Midlands’ home, only tied the knot last July.