BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Kym Marsh shares 'truly emotional moment' with dad amid incurable cancer diagnosis

Kym Marsh has shared an emotional video as her dad started a brand new treatment. The former Coronation Street actress revealed last summer that her father Dave had been diagnosed with incurable prostate cancer.

She shared how Dave had delayed going to the doctors due the coronavirus pandemic before sharing the devastating news that the disease had spread to his pelvis, spine, ribs and left leg. In June, Kym's parents appeared on Morning Live, which she co-hosts on the BBC, with their daughter to share the importance of getting your prostate checked.

Now, in a fresh update posted to Instagram on Wednesday (October 12), Kym shared a tear-jerking video of Dave ringing a bell in the hospital as he started a new journey with new cancer treatment.

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The 46-year-old hailed her dad 'her hero' as she explained how Dave won't get to ring the bell for the same reason as others who recover from the awful disease.

The current Strictly Come Dancing competitor shared a short clip of her dad ringing the bell and being applauded by nurses and said the moment “meant the world” to Dave. Talking to her thousands of followers, Kym penned: "This is our wonderful Daddy. For people that don’t know, he has incurable cancer. But [he] is being treated by the amazing doctors and nurses at his local cancer centre to keep the horrible disease away for as long as possible.

"He started a new treatment. And although he will never get to ring the end of treatment bell to mark the end of his journey with cancer, he got to ring it to mark the beginning of a new journey of hope and to give him a chance to