Shannen Doherty posts photos of her fight against breast cancer.
Shannen Doherty shared “truthful” photos of her stage 4 breast cancer battle to inspire her fans to be checked for cancer.
The candid images were posted on Instagram on Thursday The star of the former “Beverly Hills, 90210” star detailed her brutal multiple-diagnosis battle to “cut thru the fear” of what’s to come.
“For the month of awareness for breast cancer, I’d like you to read my personal story, from my initial cancer diagnosis until my next. Are the pictures all that beautiful?
It’s not, but my goal in sharing it is that we’ll all be more educated and acquainted with the signs of cancer and feels like.” said the fifty-year-old Doherty.
“I hope I encourage people to get mammograms, to get regular checkups, to cut thru the fear and face whatever might be in front of you.”
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Former “Charmed” star, diagnosed with breast cancer for the first time in March of 2015 before becoming the remission phase in April 2017, graphically described the treatment she’s had to undergo that included a mastectomy, chemotherapy, and radiation.
“I had many noses bleeds from the chemo,” said Doherty. She also said that she decided to wear cute pajamas to relieve some physical and mental discomfort. “Not sure if any people have had this experience. I also felt exhausted.”
Doherty was then able to announce in February of 2020 that she was fighting breast cancer in stage 4.
Since then, she’s been providing her fans with updates regularly and, most recently, telling them she’s “fighting to stay alive.”
“I never want to operate [like I’m dying],” she stated during “Good Morning America” Monday.
“I just want to operate as I don’t have things to check off because I’m going to keep fighting to stay alive.”
Doherty added that she’s still in the “first protocol” of treatment.
“It’s kind of like you just want to last on your protocols as long as possible so that you don’t run out of protocols,” she said.
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