After undergoing her first radiation treatment just last week, Shannen Doherty has penned a touching message to the team seeing her through this tough time.
While bravely attending her second session, the actress uploaded a candid snap with her doctors in which she dons a smile and flashes her upturned thumbs.
“Another day of radiation,” she began, before introducing Anna and Vince, who are two members on her radiation team.
“They make a concerted effort to talk to me and show me what’s going on in this process so I don’t feel so out of control in it.
“Never be too timid to speak up and ask for what you need to get thru the process. None of this is easy but a great team can make it more pleasant,” Shannen concluded, adding the hashtags, “#cancerslayer #fightlikeagirl #warrior #communicationiskey”
Committing to her mission of being completely open and honest throughout her cancer battle, last month, on November 28, the 45-year-old posted a picture to Instagram of her in hospital, ready for her first day of radiation, captioning: “#RadiationMondaySucks.”
Beside the snap, she also shared her fear of the treatment itself.
“I look like I’m about to make a run for it, which is accurate,” she says.
“Radiation is frightening to me. Something about not being able to see the laser, see the treatment and having this machine moving around you just scares me.”
“I’m sure I’ll get used to it but right now…. I hate it.”
In March 2015, the Charmed alum revealed her diagnosis with breast cancer and, sadly, since then, the cancer has spread to her lymphatic system.
Standing by her side during this tough time has been her husband-of-five-years Kurt Iswarienko and her mum Rosa Elizabeth Doherty.
The unknown is always the scariest part,” she previously told ET.
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“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.”
Our thoughts are with Shannen during this difficult time.
