HOLLYOAKS star Ali Bastian has been diagnosed with stage two breast cancer, leaving her in “total shock”. The actress, who has also appeared on the BBC One series Doctors and took part in the seventh series of Strictly Come Dancing, found a lump when she was breast feeding her daughter Isabella. 3 Ali Bastian has revealed she is being treated for breast cancer Credit: Splash News 3 Hollyoaks star Ali Bastian with her first daughter Isla Credit: Instagram 3 Ali played school teacher Becca Dean in the Channel 4 soap Credit: Lime Pictures The 42-year-old star is undergoing weekly chemotherapy sessions and is set to undergo a mastectomy and radiotherapy treatment early next year.
She told OK! magazine: “It was a total shock. I have mornings when I wake up and I’ve forgotten..
. and then suddenly I remember. I’m still trying to process it.
” Initially, doctors believed it could be a blocked duct but after antibiotics failed to stop the soreness she had tests done at a specialist clinic that revealed she had cancer. Her husband David O’Mahony said: “I was with the kids and Ali stuck her head round the door and said that cancerous cells had turned up in the biopsy. "She said it in the most subtle way so the girls didn’t twig.
I could see how scared and in shock she was. "It’s so tempting to try and ‘positive’ your way through news like this but it just hit us like a sledgehammer. "I just had a feeling of it being so unfair that Ali had been dealt this hand.
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