{"id":69266,"date":"2023-11-06T12:30:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T12:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/likecelebwn.com\/?p=69266"},"modified":"2023-11-06T12:30:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T12:30:29","slug":"bbc-strictlys-amy-dowdens-joy-as-she-enters-final-week-of-chemo-amid-cancer-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/likecelebwn.com\/celebrities\/bbc-strictlys-amy-dowdens-joy-as-she-enters-final-week-of-chemo-amid-cancer-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Strictlys Amy Dowdens joy as she enters final week of chemo amid cancer battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Strictly Come Dancing professional Amy Dowden shared her joy as she heads into her final week of chemotherapy treatment, saying she had the "biggest smile".<\/p>\n

Amy, 33, announced in June that she had undergone a mastectomy after discovering she had stage three breast cancer.<\/p>\n

Taking on Instagram on Monday, Amy shared her joy over her upcoming appointments this week, saying it has felt "such a distance" away.<\/p>\n

Sharing a beaming selfie as she posed from the sofa with a cup of tea in a breast cancer awareness mug, Amy wrote: "The biggest smile I've had on a Monday since the beginning of August!<\/p>\n

"Why because I'm entering LAST WEEK OF CHEMO! Eeeekkkk this week has felt such a distance for sooooo long. Hospital apt later, bloods tomorrow and hopefully (if all good with my bloods) it's all go for the LAST CHEMO THURSDAY," she wrote.<\/p>\n

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Last week Amy appeared on the Stand Up To Cancer live show at the Francis Crick Institute to celebrate a decade of the appeal for Cancer Research UK.<\/p>\n

Sporting a blue blazer and matching trousers, Amy told presenter Davina McCall she has her last chemotherapy session on Thursday and is looking forward to being able to \u201cring that chemo bell\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been the toughest year of my life but I\u2019m just really hoping with the surgery that I\u2019ve already had and the chemo that I\u2019ve done enough,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had sepsis, blood clots, I\u2019ve had to have hormone treatment then been put into menopause.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen I sat in that room and the doctors said, \u2018Amy, yes you have cancer\u2019, that was one stab, and then, \u2018What\u2019s your fertility plans?\u2019, because I\u2019ve got an oestrogen-fed cancer and they need to shut my ovaries down, basically, and my husband is next to me and we\u2019ve only been married a couple of months.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just heart-breaking and that is something I never knew and the impact emotionally, it has just been so tough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amy announced in June that she had undergone a mastectomy after discovering she had stage three breast cancer.<\/p>\n

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She said: \u201cYou don\u2019t get mammograms in the UK until you\u2019re in your 50s, I would never have thought at 32 I was going to get diagnosed with breast cancer.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I wasn\u2019t checking myself I would never have found it. If you\u2019re not checking yourself, who is? Get to know your own chest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amy also said the NHS had been \u201cincredible\u201d during her breast cancer treatment.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n