Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden opens up about breast cancer diagnosis and surgery to remove two tumours

Strictly’s Amy Dowden said she has been ‘left in tears’ after being diagnosed with breast cancer. The 32-year-old professional ballroom dancer made public her illness in May after discovering a lump while preparing for her belated honeymoon with husband Ben Jones in April.

Speaking for the first time since the diagnosis in an interview with The Mirror, Amy said she would ‘randomly cry’ and worry the disease was ‘spreading inside’ ahead of her single mastectomy - an operation to remove a breast to treat the illness.

Amy said she had undergone surgery last Friday to remove two tumours and three further cancer “specks”, plus some lymph nodes, from her right breast, which have now been sent for analysis.

She said:  “The cancer is in the lab now, which is the most important thing. The hardest time was waiting for surgery, thinking ‘I have cancer inside me’. You’re thinking ‘It’s grade three, what if it’s spreading, what if it spreads tonight?’