Strictly's Amy reveals her second cancer diagnosis

Strictly Come Dancing's Amy Dowden has revealed she has been fixed a 2nd crab diagnosis.

The 32-year-old dancer announced she had grade 3 crab successful May but was hopeful country would lick it.

However, doctors recovered "more tumours" and "another benignant of cancer", she said.

It means Amy volition not beryllium dancing successful this year's Strictly Come Dancing competition.

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

Appearing connected Coppafeel's, external Instagram chat with Erin Kennedy, Amy said: "I was primitively going to person a lumpectomy, radiotherapy and hormone treatment.

"But then, aft my MRI, they recovered different tumour truthful past it changed into a mastectomy and then, aft my mastectomy, unfortunately, they recovered adjacent much tumours.

"After my mastectomy, unluckily they recovered adjacent much tumours. Then they recovered different benignant of cancer."

Amy said she was told she needed chemotherapy, which made her "scared".

"But the oncologist did accidental that with chemo I've got a truly bully accidental of a cure," she added.

However, Amy, from Caerphilly, said she did not privation to person the attraction astatine first.

"For me, straightaway, it was my dancing, like, 'you tin instrumentality distant my boob but you can't instrumentality my dancing distant from me'.

"That's what I get truly upset about."

The diagnosis means Amy volition not beryllium capable to vie connected Strictly this year, but is "in regular interaction with the team".

"The BBC person conscionable been utterly incredible," she said.

Amy said she hoped to inactive beryllium capable to play immoderate portion successful the amusement and her purpose was "to proceed dancing".

"The oncologist said to maine question is really, truly bully for radical connected chemo, it's important. So that was encouraging."

Amy said she was allowed to commencement dancing connected Thursday for the archetypal clip since her country successful June.

She took to Instagram to stock convey her supporters for their benignant messages.

She wrote: "The remainder of the twelvemonth looked precise antithetic to what was planned but hopefully I'll participate 2024 crab escaped and I'll ne'er instrumentality thing for granted and committedness to unrecorded beingness to the full!

"Welsh emotion always."