Just months after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, actress Shannen Doherty has revealed that her cancer has spread to her lymph nodes.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Shannen spoke candidly about both her diagnosis and her prognosis.
“I had breast cancer that spread to the lymph nodes, and from one of my surgeries we discovered that some of the cancer cells might have actually gone out of the lymph nodes,” she said, “So for that reason, we are doing chemo, and then after chemo, I’ll do radiation.”
“The unknown is always the scariest part,” she told ET, “Is the chemo going to work? Is the radiation going to work? You know, am I going to have to go through this again, or am I going to get secondary cancer? Everything else is manageable. Pain is manageable, you know living without a breast is manageable, it’s the worry of your future and how your future is going to affect the people that you love.”
A week ago Shannen shared these personal images of her journey through shaving her hair.
Shannen also spoke out her experience with her chemotherapy treatments, which she says have been incredibly tough.
“I am in bed and it is a rush to the bathroom,” she told Entertainment Tonight, “It’s, you know, you’re throwing up every single second. After my first treatment I lost 10 pounds, instantly. You’re throwing up and the last thing you want to do is be in a car. You don’t want to be moved, you can’t eat. But my husband has to, you know, pick me up. He puts me in the car, he buckles me in, and he drives me to my oncologist and they hook me up to an IV and I get hydrated… There’s nothing going in my body, it’s all going out.”
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