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Alex Kingston, known for her roles on “ER” and “Doctor Who,” has revealed she was diagnosed with uterine cancer last year.

In an interview with The Independent, published Friday, the actress, 62, opened up about the hysterectomy she underwent and the radiation therapy she completed after.

“I had assumed that the way I was feeling was old age, and I just sort of accepted it,” she told the outlet. “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.”

Kingston — currently competing on ” Strictly Come Dancing ,” the U.K. version of ” Dancing with the Stars ” — shared that she’d been experiencing bloating and aches for a while before seeking medical attention after spotting blood in her urine.

“I never went dow

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