Strictly’s Amy Dowden ‘really not looking forward’ to procedure that will leave her with scar after cancer diagnosis

Following her breast cancer diagnosis, Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden said she wasn’t looking forward to having “another scar.”

The 32-year-old professional dancer has undergone one mastectomy after receiving a stage three breast cancer diagnosis in May.

Amy just uploaded a mirror photo of herself in the hospital on Instagram Stories with the caption: I’m not looking forward to this at all!

‘Another scar this one only an inch long but will always remind me and will Always be visible.’ [sic]

Amy said she will require chemotherapy in a recent Instagram live with breast cancer survivor and Paralympic medallist Erin Kennedy after doctors found more tumours after her mastectomy.

‘For me, my journey, everything changed,’ she said.

‘They found another type of cancer and then they told me I needed chemo – for me that was a massive blow,’ she continued.

‘It wasn’t in the plan, originally – and I know the plan you can’t get fixated on.’

Confirming she was not going to be able to compete in this year’s Strictly, she added: ‘This year, it means I’m not going to be able to dance with a celebrity on Strictly, but I’m in such regular contact with the team – the BBC have just been utterly incredible.’

The dance professional broke the terrible news on July 21 that an MRI revealed more malignancies.

She will thus not compete in this season of Strictly.

She said: ‘For me, my journey everything changed. I was originally going to have a lumpectomy, radiotherapy, and hormone treatment. But then, after my MRI, they found another tumour so then it changed into a mastectomy and then, after my mastectomy, unfortunately, they found even more tumours.

‘And my pathology wasn’t what they were expecting. And they found another type of cancer and then they told me I needed chemo – for me that was a massive blow. It wasn’t in the plan, originally – and I know the plan you can’t get fixated on.

‘So all of a sudden then, I realised. And you get scared. But the oncologist did say that with chemo I’ve got a really good chance of a cure.’

Amy recently underwent a single mastectomy and is awaiting word on whether radiation or radiotherapy in conjunction with chemotherapy will be required to treat her cancer.

Amy has received a tonne of encouragement since making her news public, even from her Strictly colleagues.

Source My Celebrity Life.