Hollyoaks actress Ali Bastian has been left shaken after being diagnosed with stage two breast cancer.The star, 42, is currently undergoing weekly chemotherapy sessions and is set to have a mastectomy and radiotherapy early next year according to reports in OK!Ali shared her feelings, saying: "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." The actress, known for her roles in BBC1's Doctors and as a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing's seventh series, found a lump while breastfeeding her daughter Isabella, reports the Mirror.
Initially dismissed as a possible blocked duct, persistent soreness led her to seek further medical advice, resulting in the devastating diagnosis.Her husband David O'Mahony recounted the moment they received the news: "I was with the kids and Ali stuck her head round the door and said that cancerous cells had turned up in the biopsy."He continued: "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.