By Ian Youngs, Tradition reporter
Strictly Come Dancing skilled Amy Dowden is to open up about her ordeal with breast most cancers in a brand new BBC documentary.
The movie, with the working title Amy Dowden: Struggle of My Life, will likely be broadcast on BBC One this summer season.
Will probably be proven forward of her return to Strictly, after she missed final 12 months’s sequence due to her sickness.
The Welsh dancer was recognized in April 2023, on the age of 32, after discovering a lump in her breast the day earlier than she went on her honeymoon.
“It was an thrilling new chapter in my life, however discovering a lump on my breast modified my life,” she mentioned in an announcement saying the documentary.
“I by no means thought at my age I might get most cancers and, regardless of having members of the family and mates who have been most cancers survivors, had no concept simply what the impression on my life can be.
“I’ve learnt a lot about myself and what a most cancers analysis means on this journey.
“I hope others discover hope and energy from this movie, and that it encourages everybody to verify themselves, it doesn’t matter what age you’re.”
She made the choice to permit cameras to observe her journey with most cancers six days after her analysis, and was filmed over 15 months.
After being recognized with stage three breast most cancers, Dowden had a mastectomy and chemotherapy, together with fertility remedy.
She was informed in July that the tumours had unfold and one other sort of most cancers had been found.
The dancer did not compete in final 12 months’s Strictly, however was in a position to participate within the group dance within the ultimate in December.
In February, a well being verify confirmed there was “no evidence of disease”.
On Monday, it was announced that Dowden, from Caerphilly, will return to Strictly’s skilled line-up for this 12 months’s sequence.
She wrote on Instagram that she was “so pleased and grateful to be again”.
In 2020, she featured in a documentary about her expertise of residing with Crohn’s illness.
She additionally based a dance studio in Cradley, within the West Midlands, in 2016.
Breast most cancers signs and indicators
- A brand new lump or space of thickened tissue in both breast that was not there earlier than
- A change within the dimension or form of 1 or each breasts
- A discharge of fluid from both of your nipples
- A lump or swelling in both of your armpits
- A change within the look or really feel of your pores and skin, equivalent to puckering or dimpling, a rash or redness
- A rash (like eczema), crusting, scaly or itchy pores and skin or redness on or round your nipple
- A change within the look of your nipple, equivalent to changing into sunken into your breast
A few of these signs are widespread and might be attributable to different circumstances, however it’s nonetheless necessary to get checked by a GP.