Strictly dancer gives update as cancer treatment begins

Strictly Come Dancing's Amy Dowden has fixed fans a affirmative update aft she underwent country for bosom cancer.

The 32-year-old spoke of her country occurrence successful an Instagram post connected Thursday aft the commencement of her attraction for the disease.

The dancer, from Caerphilly, revealed past period that she had been diagnosed with people 3 bosom cancer.

Co-stars and fans were among those wishing her good connected societal media.

"Step 1 to beating cancer! Rrrrrrready for this combat and much determined than ever to get backmost connected the dancefloor," Amy wrote successful an Instagram station shared connected Wednesday afternoon.

Soon after, comments began appearing from friends, fans and chap Strictly stars.

Tom Fletcher, 1 of her erstwhile partners connected the show, said: "Sending you each the emotion today. Us Fletchers are close down you."

Co-star Gorka Márquez replied "you got this", portion Dianne Buswell said she was "sending each that vigor your mode my love".

Stacey Dooley, Zoe Ball and Helen Skelton each besides commented successful support.

On Thursday Amy added an update to her Instagram communicative saying her country had gone well, thanking the surgeons and nurses who she said were "utterly amazing".

"Very sore but focusing connected the positives they said the country went well! Thanks for each the enactment and messages," she added.

The star, who became a Strictly Come Dancing nonrecreational successful 2017, revealed that she had bosom crab successful May.

Already a campaigner for consciousness for Crohn's disease, Amy said she hoped sharing her diagnosis would assistance others and herself successful her recovery.

"If I tin effort and crook this antagonistic into a positive, it's going to assistance maine get done this," she said astatine the time.

The dancer discovered the lump successful April, a time earlier she was owed to alert connected her honeymoon to the Maldives with hubby Ben.

"I was successful the ablution and I felt this hard lump successful my close breast," said Amy.

"I was successful shock. I checked again. I thought: 'Right, it could conscionable beryllium period-related, oregon truthful galore things. I decided I was going to support an oculus connected it for a fewer weeks."

She said 1 of her archetypal thoughts was however agelong it would instrumentality her to get backmost connected the dancefloor.

The prima did not uncover the afloat details of her attraction plan, but thanked radical for their enactment successful her astir caller post.