Shannen Doherty’s eight-year battle with breast cancer has been challenging to say the least. She updated her condition in a recent Instagram snap, adding, “Early morning doctors visit for scans.”
With drowsy eyes. My hair was a mess, but the fresh bandage wraps cheered my day! “#cancerslayer,” she posted a photo of herself wearing pink heart-patterned bandages.
After noticing a lump in her breast, Doherty was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015.
After a period of hormone therapy, she required a single mastectomy, chemotherapy, and radiation. In 2017, Doherty’s cancer went into remission.
Regrettably, it resurfaced as stage IV breast cancer in February 2020. The sickness has also spread to other parts of her body.
Breast cancer stages range from 0 to IV, with higher numbers indicating a more aggressive malignancy or how far the cancerous cells have spread beyond the original tumor.
According to the Mayo Clinic, stage 0 denotes the disease is noninvasive or contained within the milk ducts, whereas stage IV (also known as metastatic breast cancer, which Doherty is in) means the cancer has spread to other parts of the body.
According to the American Cancer Society, more than 150,000 breast cancer survivors in the United States have metastatic breast cancer.
Despite the fact that metastatic breast cancer is rarely treatable, study has revealed that technological advancements have significantly prolonged the longevity of those diagnosed with the disease.
This year, Doherty featured in two TV movies, List of a Lifetime and Dying to Belong, to help him get through these difficult years of cancer treatments.
During the years, the actress has utilized social media to disclose various elements of her cancer battle, including her chemotherapy treatments.
In a post detailing her battle with breast cancer last October, she also told her followers, “I had multiple nose bleeds from the chemo.”
I’m not sure whether any of you have had a similar experience. I, too, was fatigued. I cheered myself up by donning some hilarious pajamas that my friend Kristy had given me.
Did they, in fact, make me feel better? Yes!! Lol. I was able to laugh at myself since I looked ridiculous.
Humor helped me get through what appeared to be an impossible situation. “I believe we can all laugh at the impossibility.”
