Emmerdale 's Vanessa Woodfield (Michelle Hardwick) has been through a lot of trauma recently, as she discovered she had stage three bowel cancer shortly before being taken hostage for a week by the evil Pierce Harris.
Emmerdale spoilers have revealed that Vanessa will decide to write up a will ahead of her operation to remove her cancer, featuring the worst.
Vanessa learned that she had cancer several weeks ago, but couldn't tell her friends and family as she was hidden in Laurel's house by Pierce during his revenge plot.
As she prepares for the big operation, she tells everyone that she wants to keep working right up until the day before, but as she does, she is hit by serious abdominal pain.
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