Amy Dowden opens up on ‘toughest year’ of her life with breast cancer

Amy Dowden opens up on 'toughest year' of her life with breast cancerCredit: Stand Up To Cancer, Channel 4

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00:00 Today's a good day.

00:01 I've got my last chemo session on Thursday.

00:04 Yes!

00:05 Yes.

00:05 [APPLAUSE]

00:06 And ring that chemo bell.

00:08 It has been the toughest year of my life.

00:09 I'm just really hoping with the surgery I've already had

00:12 and the chemo that I've done enough.

00:14 And how's the treatment been?

00:15 We were talking through some of the things

00:17 that have impacted you.

00:19 It's been tough.

00:19 I've had sepsis, blood clots.

00:22 I've had to have hormone treatment, then being

00:24 put into menopause.

00:26 I mean, these are the things on top of the cancer you just

00:28 think, what else can you throw at me?

00:30 When I sat in that room and the doctor said, Amy, yes,

00:32 you've got cancer, that was one stab.

00:35 And then, what's your fertility plans?

00:38 And you know--

00:38 Fertility, of course.

00:40 Because I've got an oestrogen-fed cancer.

00:42 And I need to shut my ovaries down, basically.

00:44 And my husband's next to me.

00:46 We've only been married a couple of months.

00:48 And yeah, it's just heartbreaking.

00:50 And that's something I never knew.

00:52 And the impact emotionally, yeah, it's just been so tough.