Shannen Doherty shares that her breast cancer has spread to her brain
Doherty was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015
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Shannen Doherty has announced that the cancer she has been fighting since 2015 has spread to her brain. The Beverly Hills 90210 actor, who is 52 years old, shared the health update on Tuesday via a video posted to social media.
“On January 5th, my ct scan showed Mets in my brain,” Doherty writes in the caption of the video, which depicts Doherty crying while undergoing radiation treatment. “…January 12 the first round of radiation took place. My fear is obvious.” The video was shared in swift succession with another video Doherty posted of her being fitted for a radiation mask post-CT scan. According to Doherty, the fact that she is “extremely claustrophobic” only adds to the discomfort of the radiation process.
Although Doherty graciously thanks her medical team at Cedars-Sinai for their work, she’s also straightforward about the pain and uncertainty she’s experienced as a long-term cancer patient.
“That fear…. The turmoil….. the timing of it all…. This is what cancer can look like,” she continues. In the comments, industry peers like Sarah Michelle Gellar, Selma Blair, and Mira Sorvino all commended Doherty on her strength in the face of adversity.
Since she was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, Doherty’s cancer journey has been a series of ups and downs. In 2016, the cancer spread to Doherty’s lymph nodes, and the actor underwent eight rounds of chemotherapy and radiation in order to finally enter a remission period in 2017. But in 2020, she announced on Good Morning America that her cancer had returned as a stage 4 ailment (meaning it had spread beyond its original location).
“It’s a bitter pill to swallow in a lot of ways,” Doherty said of her cancer at the time.
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Sending good vibes to my girl Shando đ
This is so terrible and my heart goes out to her. 52 is young.Â
Fuck cancer.
First girl to break my heart when she died on Charmed (I was 11). I hope she makes it through this.
Jesus, thatâs grim. Especially with Americaâs âhealthcareâ system.
Americaâs healthcare system is great. . . if you can afford it. I assume Doherty can afford good stuff.
Ehhh, maybe? I think thereâs too much of an assumption that famous automatically equals wealthy. She was one of an ensemble cast on one very popular show about 30 years ago, fired from another after three seasons, and has mostly had a random assortment of jobs in the interim. Celebrity net worth, for whatever theyâre worth, claims she has $5 million; but even if she had that much liquid cash by the point of her diagnosis, cancer treatment makes money evaporate like little else.
Good point.
Such incredibly sad news.Â
never knew or cared much about her (I assume sheâs nice enough) but no one deserves this. I just lost one of my best friends to inoperable cancer the other week, and ever since it seems like every other day Iâm reading about others and itâs been really getting to me. So many people. And itâs just so random. It really doesnât care how old or healthy you are. Itâs such a mind fuck.