Actress Samantha Womack has announced she is now cancer free, though she is having ongoing treatment as a prevention.
In August, the former EastEnders star, who played Ronnie Mitchell in the BBC soap, revealed she was battling breast cancer. Now, the 50-year-old has said: "Now I'm just having some treatments while I go back to work, as a prevention – it was crazy, I was doing The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – the producers there were fantastic and gave me time off.
"We're feeling a lot better than we were," she told OK! Magazine. Reflecting on her ordeal, she added: "My treatment is ongoing for breast cancer, the surgery was quite difficult to recover from just because it's quite tender when you have lymph nodes removed, there's a few mobility issues at the beginning.
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"The first round of chemotherapy was pretty hardcore really, it was quite toxic – we were lucky because I got to recover in Spain, Ollie (her boyfriend) and Wallie (her dog) were picking me up from the airport in Valencia. It was in the middle of a thunderstorm and I'd just had the chemotherapy treatment and these guys picked me up."
Samantha explained the "turnaround" for her diagnosis was "quite quick" after having an ultrasound scan out of precaution, admitting she was "lucky". Speaking to This Morning hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield last month, Samantha said: "At that point, it could be anything, then I had further investigations and then that diagnosis."
Samantha added: "I was lucky, it was less than two centimetres, I had a lumpectomy, which is just a piece of tissue removed and five lymph nodes. The mad thing about cancer when you have it, is you understand there are so many different roads, different diagnoses, it is a terrifying world. It's terrifying at the beginning but if there was ever a time to have it, there are so many new treatments now that are changing the face of cancer, it's amazing."
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