Amy Dowden shares terrifying cancer fears

Amy Dowden has opened up about the terrifying wait for surgery after her breast cancer diagnosis.

The 'Strictly Come Dancing' professional was diagnosed in May after discovering a lump while preparing for her honeymoon with husband Ben Jones in April and Amy revealed the time between her diagnosis and surgery was unbearable.

Amy, 32, told The Mirror: "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?’

“The feeling of it made me feel disgusted, disgusting. That’s the time I was randomly crying, emotional.

“But we drove away and I thought, ‘It’s gone’.

“I’m a doer, I feel we have done something.”

Amy had a single mastectomy and a reconstruction during her three-hour surgery last week but admitted she has yet to look at the affected area.

She explained: "I haven’t looked, I’m waiting for the bruising and swelling to go down. I don’t want to shock or upset myself.

“I wasn’t able to use my own tissue because they said there wasn’t enough. But they had been worried it might be too bruised and they would need to put an expander in.

“Normally you have breast tissue, fat and skin but they said I had no fat.”

And, she has praised her husband for his support.

Amy said: "Ben said it looked fine, normal. That’s Ben for you! He wasn’t fazed.

"Before I went for surgery he said to my boob, ‘Nice knowing you’. That’s so Ben.”