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Amy Dowden issued a health update on Sunday as she underwent her second round of chemotherapy.

The Strictly Come Dancing star, 33, recently revealed that doctor’s discovered she has ‘another type of cancer‘ following her initial breast cancer diagnosis earlier this year.

In an emotional Instagram post, Amy revealed she is ‘heartbroken’ as her hair has started to shred.

She told her followers: ‘Wanted to be open and honest with you all from the start. So this cycle, I started feeling sick soon as second lot of ‘red devil’ was going in. Got home very tired and started being sick (even with all the anti sickness), by Friday afternoon the sickness stopped and just waves of nausea. 

‘Still taking anti sickness now. Hardly any sleep due to steroids and insomnia they bring with them. Didn’t have any last cycle but some lovely mouth ulcer friends this time round.

‘But I’ve managed some walks, lovely homemade soups and smoothies and feeling even better today. The little wins!’

Amy went into detail about the fact that she is beginning to lose her hair. She added: ‘What I’ve found harder this time round and the last few days is hair shredding. Even though I’m cold capping you hope to keep 50% of your hair and there are also many benefits to the hair growing back quicker too.

‘But as much as I prepared myself waking up everyday gently combing my hair with a wide comb and seeing what comes out, it is just heartbreaking personally for me. I’m only washing my hair once, max twice, this week, not using any heat on my hair or styling it so I just don’t feel like me.

‘So it’s time to bring out the wig I say and get used to this and help me feel like me. I’m still Amy! Some days last week I’d wake and for the first few seconds you forget and then suddenly it all hits you, the day and challenges ahead and your new reality and it’s tough – had a few morning cries and learning that’s OK too.’

She then thanked everyone for their messages of support, penning: ‘Thank you again for all the lovely messages asking how I am, want to be open and honest and hopefully help others going through or those supporting those on their journeys too! 

‘Again thanks to my family, friends and you guys for my lovely messages, I read them all, just don’t always have the energy to reply but I want you to know it really helps, means more than you will ever know! Not taken for granted and really appreciated and noticed! 

‘You truly see how lucky you are to have amazing loved ones around you! Love to you all.’

Earlier this month, Amy celebrated her 33rd birthday with her twin sister Becky and shared a throwback photo to Instagram.

She heartbreakingly admitted that ‘any milestone is a reminder’ at the moment and ‘it hurts’ as she is far from what she ‘should be doing normally.’

The dancer added that her birthday wish was fo everyone to check themselves as she works to raise awareness.

In the throwback photo from Amy’s wedding, she and Becky looked glamorous as they got ready for the big day.

She captioned the update: ‘Happy birthday to my beautiful, kind, talented twin! Hope your day is as lovely as you and for sure next year we are making up for it! Love you Bex and thank you for everything you always do for me.

‘I wasn’t looking forward to this birthday. At the moment any milestone or event is a bigger reminder and hurts.’

‘I’m far from what I should and normally doing, in the rehearsal room with my strictly family. But all your wishes this morning have certainly cheered me up. This year my birthday wish is for all to take the time to check themselves!

‘Coppa Feel have so many useful resources! Doesn’t take long! That’s my birthday wish! Thank you so much again for all the love and support it really does help and mean so much to me. Welsh love Amy x’

The previous week, Amy gave fans an emotional update after completing her first round of chemotherapy.

After undergoing the treatment, Amy offered a brave face to the camera as she smiled sweetly in her hospital bed.

Covered in blankets and wearing a cold cap, the star admitted the experience ‘wasn’t as bad’ as she thought and quipped that she was ‘one step closer to being back on the dance floor’.

Heading home, Amy also posed outside the hospital, holding up one finger.

Amy was first diagnosed with aggressive stage three breast cancer in May.

She found a lump while preparing for her honeymoon with husband Ben Jones in April and shared her diagnosis weeks later.

The professional dancer has since had an operation, a mastectomy and has had fertility treatment.

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The pharmaceutical giant behind two groundbreaking weight loss jabs has announced record profits of £4.5billion for the first half of this year.

Danish firm Novo Nordisk credited this rise – up by a third, or £1.3billion, on the previous spell – to the sky-high demand for its weekly semaglutide jabs, which could be available on the NHS by the end of the year. 

The jabs, praised by celebrities including Elon Musk and Jeremy Clarkson, are proven to help overweight patients lose up to 21lbs in just over a year by suppressing their appetites. Doctors are giving the drug to ‘more patients than ever before’, Novo Nordisk said. 

However, the intense demand across the world is causing huge supply issues.

Wegovy, another brand name of semaglutide, has yet to officially launch in the UK. Novo Nordisk anticipates huge demand and wants to shore up stock before it is distributed, MailOnline understands.  

Wegovy will only be given to overweight people, unlike Ozempic which is licensed solely for diabetics.

The firm is also restricting supply in the US, as the company struggles to keep up with demand. 

Semaglutide works by hijacking the brain to suppress appetite and reduce calorie intake, resulting in substantial weight loss. It does this by mimicking the hormone glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), which is released after eating.

It was nicknamed Hollywood’s worst kept secret, with fans including Elon Musk and Jeremy Clarkson.

Even Kim Kardashian was rumoured to have used it to rapidly lose 16lbs (7.3kg) to fit into Marilyn Monroe’s ‘Happy Birthday Mr President’ dress at the 2022 Met Gala.

Novo Nordisk’s financial report for the first half of 2023 shows it made a net profit of 39.2billion Danish kroner (£4.5billion) up from 27.5billion kroner (£3.2billion) the previous year.

The company — Europe’s second most valuable behind luxury goods firm LVMH — said the trend was ‘mainly driven by’ a 49 per cent boost in sales for GLP-1 diabetes drugs. 

In total, sales for these drugs came to 99billion kroner (£11.5billion).

Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen, president and chief executive of Novo Nordisk, said: ‘We are very pleased with the sales growth in the first half of 2023. 

‘The growth is driven by increasing demand for our GLP-1-based diabetes and obesity treatments, and we are serving more patients than ever before.’

He added that obesity is a ‘serious chronic disease’ and weight-related conditions ‘can be significantly reduced by treating people with semaglutide’.

It comes after a study this week of 17,600 people showed that overweight or obese adults who take Wegovy are a fifth less likely to suffer heart attacks and strokes. 

Trial results show that nine in ten Wegovy users lose 5 per cent of their body weight over the course of 68 weeks, while three in ten lose a fifth.

Participants also slashed their calorie intake and upped the amount of exercise they were doing.

However, like all medication, it has side effects. 

Headaches, vomiting and diarrhoea are among the most common. Some also suffer from acid reflux, fatigue and complain that food tastes different after using the drug.

It is this side effect that some people credit for further assisting their weight loss — by making their favourite junk foods taste bad.

Other rarer side effects include gallstones, inflammation of your pancreas — known medically as pancreatitis — and an increased risk of low blood sugar and kidney problems. 

The jab is also being investigated over fears it causes cancer after studies in mice and rats suggested that semaglutide could raise the risk of medullary thyroid cancer.

Trials have also shown that users can rapidly pile pounds back on once they stop taking the fat-fighting drug.

In March, Wegovy was approved by the UK’s medicines watchdog for up to  four million Brits who have one weight-related condition and a BMI of 30 or higher.

The drug has been available for weight management in the US since 2021 but is yet to launch in the UK due to supply difficulties. 

Meanwhile, Ozempic is given to type 2 diabetics to help control their blood glucose levels.

However, because it uses the same ingredient, it can help weight loss.

Health officials issued an alert last month warning that it ‘strongly discouraged’ off-label prescribing for those seeking to shift the scales, as it could leave diabetes patients without their vital medication.

Amid difficulties keeping up with demand, Novo Nordisk confirmed it would continue limiting Wegovy supplies in the US to ensure there are enough doses for existing patients. 

Mr Jorgensen said: ‘We’ve seen that the initiative we took earlier this year, limiting the starter dose, has actually helped manage those dynamics. So we want to extend that in the coming quarters.’

The mother of the teenager who died in the Titan sub disaster with his multi-millionaire father has revealed she had originally intended to go on the doomed voyage – but gave her spot to her son because he ‘really wanted to go’.

Christine Dawood and her husband Shahzada Dawood had initially booked a trip to the Titanic wreck for themselves but had to cancel due to the pandemic.

She said that when their family reserved spots on this year’s OceanGate Expeditions mission, she ‘stepped back’ because her son Suleman, 19, was so keen to go.

The family boarded the Polar Prince, the sub’s support vessel, on Father’s Day hoping for the trip of a lifetime. Mrs Dawood and her daughter Alina, 17, were still on board when word came through on June 18 that communications with Titan had been lost.

She and her daughter held out hope to begin with after they did not initially return – but admitted she ‘lost hope’ when 96 hours had passed since her husband and son boarded the submersible, which indicated they had run out of oxygen.

Her daughter held out a bit longer, she said, until a call with the US Coast Guard last Thursday when they were informed debris had been found – something they did not know about until that point. It then became clear that an implosion had taken place.

The US Navy had detected sounds ‘consistent with an implosion’ soon after Titan lost contact on Sunday, but it was deemed ‘not definitive’ and the detail was not released publicly – with the search and rescue mission continuing until debris was found. 

Speaking about initially holding out hope, Mrs Dawood told the BBC: ‘We all thought they are just going to come up so that shock was delayed by about 10 hours or so.

‘By the time they were supposed to be up again, there was a time…. when they were supposed to be up on the surface again and when that time passed, the real shock, not shock but the worry and the not so good feelings, started.

‘We had loads of hope, I think that was the only thing that got us through it because we were hoping and… there were so many actions the people on this sub can do in order to surface… they would drop the weights, then the ascent would be slower, we were constantly looking at the surface. There was that hope.

‘There was so many things we would go through where we would think ‘it’s just slow right now, it’s slow right now’. But there was a lot of hope.’

She said she ‘lost hope’ when 96 hours had passed since her husband and son boarded the submersible.

She revealed that is when she sent a message to her family saying she was ‘preparing for the worst’.

Her daughter held out a bit longer, she said, until the call with the US Coast Guard when they were informed debris had been found.

UK-based businessman Shahzada and Suleman were two of the five victims killed instantly when the submersible suffered a ‘catastrophic implosion’ just 1,600ft from the bow of the Titanic, according to the US Coast Guard.

Mrs Dawood revealed that she had planned to go with her husband to view the Titanic wreck in the OceanGate sub, but that their trip was cancelled due to the Covid pandemic.

‘Then I stepped back and gave them space to set [Suleman] up, because he really wanted to go,’ she said.

‘I was really happy for them because both of them, they really wanted to do that for a very long time.’

Mrs Dawood shared how she and Alina hugged and joked with Shahzada and Suleman before the pair entered the submersible.

Suleman, a student at Strathclyde University, had taken his Rubik’s Cube on the trip as he hoped to break the world record for solving the puzzle at the greatest depth, she revealed.

‘He said: ‘I’m going to solve the Rubik’s Cube 3,700 meters below sea at the Titanic’,’ Mrs Dawood recalled.

Her son, she said, was practical and intellectual, and wouldn’t go anywhere without his Rubik’s Cube – which he taught himself to solve it in just 12 seconds.

‘Suleman did a 10,000-piece lego Titanic. He applied for a world record because he wanted to solve a Rubik’s Cube at the deepest point.

While his application was rejected, they were still planning to film the attempt.

Mrs Dawood said she and her daughter have vowed to try to learn to finish the Rubik’s Cube in Suleman’s honour, and she intends to continue her husband’s work.

She said: ‘He was involved in so many things, he helped so many people and I think Alina and I really want to continue that legacy and give him that platform when his work has continued and it’s quite important for my daughter as well.

‘Alina and I said we are going learn how to solve the Rubik’s Cube. That’s going to be a challenge for us because we are really bad at it but we are going to learn it.’

And the heartbroken mother said through tears: ‘I miss them. I really, really miss them.’

As well as her husband and son, three others died on board Titan: OceanGate’s CEO Stockton Rush, 61, British businessman Hamish Harding, 58, and Paul-Henry Nargeolet, 77, a former French navy diver and experienced Titanic diver. 

Mrs Dawood said those above water tried to remain hopeful, telling themselves: ‘There were so many actions the people on this sub can do in order to surface… they would drop the weights, then the ascent would be slower, we were constantly looking at the surface. There was that hope.’

She and her daughter held out hope to begin with after being they did not initially return.

She said: ‘We all thought they are just going to come up so that shock was delayed by about 10 hours or so.

‘By the time they were supposed to be up again, there was a time…. when they were supposed to be up on the surface again and when that time passed the real shock, not shock but the worry and the not so good feelings started.’

Despite the bleak outlook as the hunt dragged on, she said her teenage daughter never lost hope of her father and older brother’s rescue.

Alina’s mother said of her daughter: ‘She is such an incredible young woman, she is so self-aware.

‘She believes in science, and she really believe, just like if you board a plane, that the science, the mechanics, the engineering will work.’

Mrs Dawood said at 96 hours she tried ‘really hard’ not to show her daughter that she had lost hope.

After news emerged on Thursday that debris from the sub had been found, the family returned to St John’s in Newfoundland, Canada on Saturday.

Yesterday, they held a funeral prayer for Shahzada and Suleman, which Christine said had ‘helped’.

Paying tribute to her son, she admitted he had been a ‘mother’s boy’ but that he also ‘loved his father’.

When asked what the family’s last words to each other were, she told the BBC: ‘We just hugged and joked actually, because Shahzada was so excited to go down, he was like a little child.

‘He had this ability of childhood excitement, they were both so excited.’

Mrs Dawood and her husband met at university, she said, when she didn’t speak any English.

She recalled how the history buff knew more about her native Germany’s history than she did, and that he was obsessed with documentaries.

‘He would make us all watch David Attenborough, and the children loved it.

‘His enthusiasm brought the best out of me, and so I really learned to love history as well. He was really able to, through his knowledge, inspire and motivate others.’

Former Democratic Rep. and South Carolina governor candidate Joe Cunningham said Thursday that he does not think former President Biden should run again in 2024 due to his age. 

Asked on CNN‘s New Day if he thought Biden, 79, was too old to run for reelection, Cunningham replied: ‘Yeah. I think we need to have a new generation of leadership.’

‘The whole system of government is being run by a geriatric oligarchy,’ Cunningham said.  

The one-term congressman had just put out an ad advocating for age limits in government. ‘Democrats have a very deep bench, and it’s time to allow a new generation to emerge and new talent.’

‘This isn’t about, personal about Biden, but he’d be 82 [by the] time of the next election. If he served out a second term, he would be 86 years old. I’m not sure if any of us know any 86-year-olds who should be running the entire country,’ Cunningham said. 

The 40-year-old gubernatorial candidate also said House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., should retire at 81. He noted that in the Palmetto State judges have to retire at age 72. 

‘This isn’t anything personal. I mean, we set out – we draw a line, age 72, South Carolina state law is judges have to retire at age 72. So my question and the point that I’m making, if you’re too old to interpret the law, are you not too old to be making the law?’ he asked. 

Biden has made it clear he intends to run again, and still Democrats are quietly setting the stage for a presidential race without the incumbent on the ticket. 

The outlook for who would replace Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket is murky as his second-in-command Kamala Harris is beleaguered by low poll numbers. Her own presidential campaign in 2020 faded out quickly. 

Meanwhile, Americans are not particularly jazzed about another Biden run – 61 percent said they do not think the president should seek a second term, according to a May Rasmussen poll.  

It’s rare for a president to bow out of the fight after only one term – only six have ever done so.  

There was a new round of scrutiny about President Joe Biden’s age earlier this month after the New York Times quoted a mix of rank-and-file Democrats and senior figures raising concerns about the issue as the mid-term elections approach.

The paper’s Sunday front page treatment of the subject that dogged Biden, 79, throughout his most recent presidential campaign, comes amid low approval ratings and fears among some Democrats that he remains vulnerable to a restoration effort by former President Donald Trump.

‘I need an equivalent of Ron DeSantis, a Democrat, but not a 70- or 80-year-old — a younger person,’ Maryland data analyst Alex Wyshyvanuk, 33, told the paper. ‘Someone who knows what worked for you in 1980 is not going to work for you in 2022 or 2024,’ he said.

The paper also quoted a Democratic National Committee member from Florida, Steve Simionidis, saying Biden ‘should announce his intent not to seek re-election in ’24 right after the midterms.’

But the publication cited ‘deep concern’ about Biden’s political viability among dozens of officials who would not provide on-record comments. Biden would be 82 at the time of the next Inauguration Day. The airing of concerns comes at a time when the House Jan. 6 committee was busy laying out evidence gleaned from hundreds of interviews about Trump’s election overturn effort.

‘The presidency is a monstrously taxing job and the stark reality is the president would be closer to 90 than 80 at the end of a second term, and that would be a major issue,’ said David Axelrod, 67, who helped propel Barack Obama’s ascent with a campaign that featured youthful energy and a ‘hope’ slogan. Obama was 47 when he took office, after failing to complete his first term in the Senate.

The story set off a new round of speculation about Biden’s age, amid fretting that his age, amid record inflation, a war in Ukraine, and a now tumbling stock market could imperil an effort to beat back Trump.

Axios chimed in with a story on the American gerontocracy, noting that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is 82 and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer is 71.

Even longtime commentator David Gergen, 80, told PBS NewsHour: ‘I think people like Biden and Trump ought to both step back and leave open the door to younger people.’

The Times has run similar pieces before, including one in 2019 where Democrats were fretting that the candidate, then 76, was ‘slow off the mark, uncertain about how to counterpunch,’ according to the paper, in a debate that featured then Sen. Kamala Harris. He went on to capture the nomination and win the presidency.

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By Gavin Mccafferty, Pa

Published: 15:17 EDT, 20 June 2023 | Updated: 15:22 EDT, 20 June 2023