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Strictly's Amy Dowden reveals the 'hardest step' in her entire breast cancer battle as she meets other women fighting the disease in moving short film

Strictly's Amy Dowden has revealed that losing her hair was the hardest part of her entire breast cancer battle.

Strictly's Amy Dowden has revealed that losing her hair was the hardest part of her entire breast cancer battle. Amy said her Crohn's fight, which has included hospital stays, taught her to regard doctors telling her she couldn't do anything due to illness as a challenge. Amy believes she was made stronger by Crohn's and cancer - which came with setbacks when she developed sepsis and a blood clots - but she doesn't want illness to define her.

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