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Shannen Doherty Says Her Breast Cancer Has Spread To Her Bones
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Shannen Doherty revealed her stage 4 breast cancer has spread to her bones, less than a year after it spread to her brain.
“I dont want to die,” the Beverly Hills, 90210 star told People for a cover story published Wednesday.
“Im not done with living. Im not done with loving. Im not done with creating. Im not done with hopefully changing things for the better,” she said.
The 52-year-old was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, and underwent a mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation. In 2017, she revealed her cancer was in remission. But in 2019 it returned, and was diagnosed as metastatic stage 4 cancer.
“When you ask yourself, Why me? Why did I get cancer? and then Why did my cancer come back? Why am I stage 4?, that leads you to look for the bigger purpose in life,” she said. Its insane to me we still dont have a cure.
She hopes to raise funds for cancer research, and prove that people with cancer can still work and contribute.
“People just assume that it means you cant walk, you cant eat, you cant work. They put you out to pasture at a very early age —Youre done, youre retired, and were not,” she says. “Were vibrant, and we have such a different outlook on life. We are people who want to work and embrace life and keep moving forward.”
It’s that determination that saw her jokingly name her brain tumor Bob when her cancer spread earlier this year. In June, she revealed on Instagram that she had the surgery to remove the brain tumor five months earlier.
“He had to get removed and dissected to see his pathology,” she wrote at the time. “It was definitely one of the scariest things Ive ever been through in my entire life.”
Now that the cancer is in her bones, the Charmed star is hoping to be accepted into clinical trials for new treatments.
My greatest memory is yet to come, she said. I pray. I wake up and go to bed thanking God, praying for the things that matter to me without asking for too much. It connects me to a higher power and spirituality. My faith is my mantra.”
TMX contributed to this article.
