Strictly star Amy Dowden gives breast cancer surgery update as she says things 'went well'

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Strictly Come Dancing professional Amy Dowden has told fans that her breast cancer surgery has gone "well" as she took to her social media to provide an update.The 32-year-old Welsh ballroom and Latin American dancer, who joined the BBC celebrity competition show in 2017, announced in May that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer just a day before her honeymoon.Amy, who has been tirelessly supported by her husband Ben Jones, said in an Instagram story on Thursday that her surgery “went well” and gave a “big thank you” to her surgeons and nurses who had been “utterly amazing”.Caerphilly-born Amy added: “(I’m) very sore but focusing on the positives, they said the surgery went well!

Thanks for all the support and messages.”The dancer had shared an Instagram image on Wednesday showing her in a hospital bed saying she was “ready for this fight and more determined than ever to get back on the dance floor”.Fellow Strictly dancers including Vito Coppola, Dianne Buswell, Karen Hauer and Jowita Przystal, together with presenters Rylan Clark and Zoe Ball, all expressed their support.Last month, Amy told Hello!

magazine that she had found a lump in her breast in April, the day before going to the Maldives on her honeymoon with fellow professional dancer Ben.After realising the lump had grown during her holiday, Amy said she went to the GP before being sent for an emergency referral and then finding out in May that she had stage three breast cancer.She said: “My doctor explained to me that there are three grades, and three is the most aggressive, but they feel like they’ve caught mine early and to not be too alarmed because grade three would be expected in somebody of my age.”Amy – who was a finalist on Strictly four years ago