Amy's update
Brave Strictly star Amy Dowden shares her new health update after shaving off her hair
AMY Dowden has shared a new health update amid her battle with cancer.
The Strictly Come Dancing professional, 33, revealed in May that she'd been diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Then, after undergoing a mastectomy a month later, she told how doctors had found cancer elsewhere in her body.
Brave Amy has since started chemotherapy treatment and recently made the heart-wrenching decision to shave her hair.
Sharing a new update with fans on Instagram, the dancer said: "Hello all. So bloods are good, chemo on Thursday.
"So we’re making bone broth and in the morning we’re going to do ginger and lemon shots.
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"Obviously nutrition is [always] really important, never mind when you’re going through chemotherapy."
The BBC favourite - who joined Strictly in 2017 - initially said how she wanted to "keep my identity" with her locks after starting chemo but woke up to the reality it was "shredding ever day."
But after making the hard decision to shave her hair, Amy insisted she is "bringing normality to a beautiful bald head."
She wrote: "This too shall pass.
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"Taking control - The hardest step so far. I tried my best to save it.
"I know it’s only hair but these past few months I’ve had what feels like so much taken away from me that has made me not feel like Amy."
Amy added: "I’m now focussing-not on the hair I’m losing but the hair I’m going to get back and the happy dancing, tea lover who talks way to fast whilst rolling every rrrrr who is still there inside with or without hair!
"Since taking control, I feel I can now see the finish line. This for me was a hurdle I couldn’t even bring myself to think or speak about.
"I’ve done it and I’ve also crossed the half way chemo line!
Im feeling empowered and positive!"
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