Former Hollyoaks star Ali Bastian has shared a health update with fans amid her cancer battle. In the emotional post, she explains that “it is not an easy path”.
Last month, Ali told her followers that her diagnosis with stage two breast cancer had left her in "total shock".The actress, 42, explained that she was now receiving weekly chemotherapy treatment, and then early next year will undergo a mastectomy and also radiotherapy treatment.
It was when she was breastfeeding her daughter Isabella that Ali discovered a lump in her breast. Doctors initially thought it could be a blocked duct, but when antibiotics failed to clear things up, she went to a specialist clinic where tests revealed the cancer.
In a new update posted on social media, Ali, who has appeared on the BBC1 series Doctors and also competed in the seventh series of Strictly Come Dancing, shared a snap of herself.
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