Amy Dowden has provided a candid update on her cancer journey live on Stand Up To Cancer on Channel 4. The professional dancer appeared live on the show as she shared her heartbreak about motherhood.
The Strictly Come Dancing star said: “A cancer diagnosis changes you forever… I’ve been put into menopause… I don’t know if I’ll ever have the honour of becoming a mum which I desperately want to… Five weeks ago I have another mastectomy…
“I’m so grateful for another shot of live, to be able get back on the dance floor… I’m so grateful for my medical team, the doctors and nurses who have kept me alive. A cancer diagnosis changes you forever, I’m no longer the person I was and that’s not by choice.”
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The Welsh dancer was diagnosed in 2023 and subsequently underwent chemotherapy and two mastectomies. Appearing on Channel 4’s Stand Up To Cancer, she said: “I still receive monthly injections on the oncology unit. I’ve been put into menopause because of my hormone-fed cancer.
It comes after King Charles III also gave an update. In his pre-recorded message, which he created just over a week ago in the morning room at Clarence House, he said: “Today I am able to share with you the good news that thanks to early diagnosis, effective intervention and adherence to ‘doctors’ orders’, my own schedule of cancer treatment can be reduced in the New Year.
“This milestone is both a personal blessing and a testimony to the remarkable advances that have been made in cancer care in recent years; testimony that I hope may give encouragement to the fifty per cent of us who will be diagnosed with the illness at some point in our lives.”
He went on to speak of his own experience of feeling overwhelmed when receiving a cancer diagnosis. However, Charles, who was wearing a Stand Up To Cancer lapel pin, used his address to stress the importance of early detection.
He said it’s ‘troubling’ people aren’t taking up cancer screening available to them. “Throughout my own cancer journey, I have been profoundly moved by what I can only call the ‘community of care’ that surrounds every cancer patient,” he said.
“The specialists, the nurses, researchers and volunteers who work tirelessly to save and improve lives. But I have also learned something that troubles me deeply – at least nine million people in our country are not up to date with the cancer screenings available to them. That is at least nine million opportunities for early diagnosis being missed.”
And the monarch added: “Yet too often, I am told, people avoid screening because they imagine it may be frightening, embarrassing or uncomfortable. If and when they do finally take up their invitation, they are glad they took part.
“A few moments of minor inconvenience are a small price to pay for the reassurance that comes for most people when they are either told they don’t need further tests, or, for some, are given the chance to enable early detection, with the life-saving intervention that can follow.”
Stand Up to Cancer on Channel 4, to check if you are eligible for NHS / PHA cancer screening, go to www.screeningchecker.co.uk’
If you have been affected by this story, advice and support can be found at Breast Cancer Support.
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