EastEnders character Sam Mitchell will face a battle with breast cancer in an upcoming storyline as the Walford icon makes a comeback to the BBC soap after two years away

EastEnders character Sam Mitchell will face a battle with breast cancer in an upcoming storyline. The Walford resident, who has been played by Kim Medcalf on and off since 2002, will return to the BBC soap this December, having discovered a lump in her breast.

When Sam first arrives back in Albert Square, it is clear that she wants to keep her worrying discovery private, but at the behest of Jack, Denise and finally Phil, she eventually makes the trip to the doctors, where she receives the devastating diagnosis, with the saving grace being that it has been caught early.

The whole storyline will follow Sam, who was i

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