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Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden has opened up about coming close to death during her chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer, Speaking exclusively to the Mirror, she said: “I’m starting to lose my eyelashes, my hair follicles are dying, so your eyes stream more because they’re sensitive."
After her first chemo she “felt great”, going for a five-mile walk with her dad two days later – but collapsing soon after. “I had a temperature and didn’t realise the severity of having a temperature. I stood up, collapsed, Mum rang the emergency number and they said ‘phone an ambulance immediately’. From there everything got very serious.
“We met the paramedics a week later and they said if I had gone to bed that night I might not have woken up the next morning.” The sepsis was caused by an infection she picked just up before her treatment. To say that Amy has been unlucky is an understatement. After developing Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel condition, aged 11, she has become used to ill health. Since joining Strictly in 2017, she has faced frequent bouts. But these potentially fatal side-effects of her cancer treatment have been deeply disturbing.
She later learnt she had tested negative for the hereditary BRCA gene – a surprise because her mum has been through cancer. But days afterwards, she received bad news. Doctors had discovered a second type of breast cancer in the tissue they removed, plus more tumours, including one close to her chest, and specks in her other breast. They need investigating once she finishes chemotherapy.
But ultimately, it was her former dance teacher in Wales who said something which cut through. It was related to Amy undergoing IVF to create and freeze embryos before starting treatment, hoping that she and Ben might still have children.
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