Strictly Come Dancing’s Amy Dowden tells followers breast most cancers surgical procedure ‘went well’
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trictly Come Dancing skilled Amy Dowden has informed followers that her breast most cancers surgical procedure has gone “well”.
The 32-year-old Welsh ballroom and Latin American dancer, who joined the BBC movie star competitors present in 2017, introduced in May that she had been identified with breast most cancers.
Caerphilly-born Dowden mentioned in an Instagram story on Thursday that her surgical procedure “went well” and gave a “big thank you” to her surgeons and nurses who had been “utterly amazing”.
Dowden added: “(I’m) very sore but focusing on the positives, they said the surgery went well! Thanks for all the support and messages.”
The dancer had shared an Instagram picture on Wednesday exhibiting her in a hospital mattress saying she was “ready for this fight and more determined than ever to get back on the dance floor”.
Fellow Strictly dancers together with Vito Coppola, Dianne Buswell, Karen Hauer and Jowita Przystal, along with presenters Rylan Clark and Zoe Ball, all expressed their assist.
Last month, Dowden informed Hello! journal that she had discovered a lump in her breast in April, the day earlier than going to the Maldives on her honeymoon with fellow skilled dancer Ben Jones.
After realising the lump had grown throughout her vacation, Dowden mentioned she went to the GP earlier than being despatched for an emergency referral after which discovering out in May that she had stage three breast most cancers.
She mentioned: “My doctor explained to me that there are three grades, and three is the most aggressive, but they feel like they’ve caught mine early and to not be too alarmed because grade three would be expected in somebody of my age.”
Dowden – who was a finalist on Strictly 4 years in the past alongside her companion, the TV presenter and actor Karim Zeroual – married Jones in a star-studded Welsh ceremony final July after turning into engaged on New Year’s Eve in 2017.
She has additionally been vocal in elevating consciousness about Crohn’s illness, which the dancer revealed she was affected by in 2019.
Dowden mentioned: “With what I’ve done for Crohn’s, I want to do the same here. If I can try and turn this negative into a positive, it’s going to help me get through this.
“You just don’t ever think it’s going to happen to you. I hadn’t thought it was possible to get breast cancer at my age.
“My mum has had breast cancer, but she had it at a later age, in her 50s.”