Strictly's Amy Dowden reveals breast cancer diagnosis

Strictly dancer Amy Dowden has revealed she has been diagnosed with people 3 bosom cancer.

The 32-year-old was diagnosed past week aft checking much often pursuing a foundation trek for the disease.

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."

Amy, from Caerphilly, who became a Strictly Come Dancing nonrecreational 2017, shared her interrogation with Hello! mag on Instagram, telling her 328,000 followers of her diagnosis.

She said: "Hey all, I've got immoderate quality which isn't casual to share. I've precocious been diagnosed with bosom crab but I'm determined to get backmost connected that dancefloor earlier you cognize it. Welsh emotion Amy."

Amy is already an progressive campaigner for Crohn's Disease and ambassador for Crohn's & Colitis UK.

"I've been done rather a batch successful my beingness and this is different hurdle," Amy told Hello! magazine.

"But if I'm affirmative and strong, I've got a truly bully accidental of getting backmost retired connected the dancefloor arsenic soon arsenic possible.

"You conscionable don't ever deliberation it's going to hap to you," she said.

"I hadn't thought it was imaginable to get bosom crab astatine my age. My mum has had bosom cancer, but she had it astatine a aboriginal age, successful her 50s."

Amy 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 connected vacation nevertheless she was putting lotion connected each time and could consciousness it more.

Worried the accent would flare up her Crohn's, she went consecutive to the doctors erstwhile she was home.

After an exigency referral from her GP, she said "everything happened truthful fast" and was told she would request idiosyncratic with her for the results.

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

Amy is inactive waiting to perceive much earlier she is fixed a afloat attraction program but said it volition decidedly see surgery.

Cancer is separated into antithetic grades depending connected however rapidly it is developing, according to the NHS, whereas staging is utilized to bespeak however acold it has spread.

Grade 3 means the crab cells look abnormal and whitethorn turn oregon dispersed much aggressively. But Amy does not yet person accusation connected her cancer's stage.

"I don't cognize what signifier the crab is yet, until I person an MRI scan and a biopsy connected a 2nd lump they person recovered successful the aforesaid breast. Once they've got that, they tin springiness maine a afloat prognosis," said Amy.

Amy said she has learned to instrumentality her Crohn's successful her stride and said she was utilizing that aforesaid intelligence spot aft her crab diagnosis.

"I'm going to beryllium arsenic affirmative arsenic I tin and I privation everybody who is surrounding maine to besides beryllium affirmative - that's truly important," she says. "I privation enactment retired determination however important it is to cheque your thorax - whether you're antheral oregon female."