Strictly Come Dancing's Amy Dowden bravely asks for 'chemo tips' as she shares plan after heartbreaking second diagnosis

Amy Dowden has asked her fans and followers for 'chemo tips' after she revealed that doctors have found "more tumours" and "another type of cancer" which means she will not compete on this year’s Strictly Come Dancing.

The 32-year-old professional dancer, who has joined the BBC One dance contest in 2017 and was a finalist in the competition four years ago with presenter Karim Zeroual, found out in May that she had stage three breast cancer after finding a lump in her breast before going on her honeymoon with husband Ben Jones.

She announced last month that she had undergone a mastectomy including reconstruction and was awaiting more details of the next steps of her treatment. And when speaking with rower Erin Kennedy, who was diagnosed with breast cancer last year and has undergone chemotherapy, during an Instagram video on Friday with awareness charity CoppaFeel, Amy confirmed she has to have chemotherapy.

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The Welsh ballroom and Latin American dancer said: "I was originally going to have a lumpectomy, radiotherapy and hormone treatment. And then, after my MRI, (the doctors) found another tumour so then it changed into a mastectomy and then, after my mastectomy, unfortunately, they found even more tumours.

"And my pathology wasn’t what we were expecting and then they found another type of cancer." She added that being told she needed chemotherapy was "scary" and a "massive blow" as the treatment had not been part of her original healthcare plan.

Amy continued: "For me, straightaway, (it) was just like my dancing, like you can take away my boob but you can’t take my dancing away from me. I was already upset about (it), and