Strictly Come Dancing star Alex Kingston has revealed she was diagnosed with womb cancer after haemorrhaging on stage.

Alex, 62, who made her name appearing in beloved TV series like ER and Doctor Who, received the diagnosis last year.

Since then, she has had treatment, including a hysterectomy and radiation therapy, which finished late last year.

The actor admitted to initially dismissing her symptoms as being related to old age.

‘I had assumed that the way I was feeling was old age, and I just sort of accepted it,” Alex told The Independent.

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‘I thought, “OK, this is what it’s like to be in my sixties.” But a lot of how I was feeling was to do with my illness.’ When she noticed blood in her urine, she decided to seek a diagnosis. Even then, howev

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