Strictly star Amy Dowden opens up about the uncertainties of having children after cancer battle

Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden has opened up about the uncertainties of having children following her battle with cancer.

The professional dancer was diagnosed with grade three breast cancer last year after finding a lump in her breast. She made the discovery a day before jetting off to Maldives with her husband Ben Jones on their honeymoon.

Wales Online reports how the 34-year-old had hoped that surgery would resolve the issue. However doctors later informed her that further tumours and "another type of cancer" had been detected during tests.

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Amy spent the remainder of the year frequently visiting the hospital for chemotherapy, fertility treatment, and a mastectomy.

Her health struggles also led to Amy, who had been a professional dancer on Strictly Come Dancing for six years, having with withdraw from the BBC show last year.

In February this year, she expressed her relief when a health check revealed that "no evidence of the disease" had been found. She told fans she wouldn't receive the all-clear for at least another five years due to her hormone-fed cancer, but described the news as her "biggest accomplishment" so far.

Amy is now set to return to the dance floor for the show's 20th anniversary, which begins this weekend. She admitted that there are still uncertainties in her personal life regarding having children.

She said: "I had a hormone-fed cancer, so they needed to put me into menopause because my hormones were feeding the cancer.

"My whole body was feeding cancer. But also because I was having chemotherapy, and as amazing as chemotherapy is, it destroys a lot of cells in your body.

"Your eggs, your ovaries, everything can be damaged and not necessarily reboot again."

With this Amy has been told that her body "can't go through that right now".

Speaking further to The Sentinel, she added: "You produce so many hormones when you're pregnant, I'd be at such a high risk of my cancer returning. Of course we want children, but we still don't know.

"There are so many options, which we're grateful for. With fertility and the pressure in general you don't know what someone is going through. People should bear that in mind. We need to educate."