The professional dancer underwent an egg retrieval procedure following her 2023 cancer diagnosis. Strictly Come Dancing professional Amy Dowden has said she “would love a family” after she froze five of her embryos following her diagnosis with breast cancer in 2023.
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The 34-year-old dancer was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer in May 2023 and underwent a mastectomy and chemotherapy, and announced in February 2024 that she had “no evidence of disease”. Dowden returned to the BBC dancing competition in September of that year, but was forced to withdraw early due to sustaining a stress fracture in her shin.
Before she underwent chemotherapy in 2023, Dowden learnt she was going to be put into menopause so she underwent an egg retrieval to give her and her husband, dancer Ben Jones, the chance to try for a baby in the future. “We would love a family, and we’ve got embryos, because, obviously, I’ve got a hormone-fed cancer, so I was put into menopause, which happened the day I started chemo,” she explained.
“So, in a couple of years, when they feel it’s safe, hopefully, we’ll have the opportunity. And if not, there’s still lots of other opportunities, which we have spoken about.”. “Hopefully in years to come we’ll be lucky enough to become parents too, but [we’re] taking every day as it comes.”.
