Amy Dowden admitted it was tough being forced to go into menopause and the fear of not being able to have children.<\/p>\n
The Strictly Come Dancing star, 33, discussed her “extremely tough” battle with breast cancer during Channel 4’s Stand Up To Cancer on Friday.<\/p>\n
The BBC star joined presenter Davina McCall and gave further details about her breast cancer, saying it was “heartbreaking”.<\/p>\n
Amy said: “I’ve had sepsis, blood clots, I’ve had to have hormone treatment then being put into menopause’.<\/p>\n
“When I sat in that room and the doctor said “yes Amy you have cancer” that was one stab, and then what’s your ‘fertility plans?'”<\/p>\n
READ MORE <\/strong> Piers Morgan inundated with support after diagnosis as appearance sparks concern<\/strong><\/p>\n She continued: “Because I have an oestrogen fed cancer and they need to shut my ovaries down basically, and my husband is next to me and we’ve only been married a couple of months!<\/p>\n “And it’s just heartbreaking and that is something I never knew, and the impact emotionally it’s just been so tough.”<\/p>\n Amy was officially diagnosed with the disease in May when she found a lump in her right breast in April, a day before she and her husband Ben Jones jetted off for a belated honeymoon to the Maldives after their wedding last July.<\/p>\n She added: “It has been the toughest year of my life but I am hoping with the surgery and chemo I have done enough.”<\/p>\n Don’t miss… <\/strong>
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