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Former EastEnders star Samantha Womack now cancer free as actress opens up on difficult journey

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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