While theyve detailed the emotional and physical pain of treatment, most are now cancer-freeyet some are not.
More often than you might think, remission from breast cancer isnt permanent.
Shannen Doherty
TheBeverly Hills 90210actorrevealedin 2015 that she was undergoing treatment after a breast cancer diagnosis.
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After my second treatment, my hair was really matted, like in dreadlocks.
And I went to try and brush it out, and it just fell out, Doherty toldET.
We did a pixie.
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And then we did a mohawk, which was my favorite look.
And then, finally, we had to get the shaver thing and just buzz it off.
In January 2023, a CT scan showed that cancer had spread to her brain.
Brain radiation treatments and surgery followedwith Doherty bravely sharing photos and thoughts fromthe proceduresvia Instagram.
The fear was overwhelming to me, she wrote on Instagram in June when recalling the procedures.
Scared of all possible bad outcomes, worries about leaving my mom and how that would impact her.
Worried that I would come out of surgery not me anymore.
This is what cancer can look like.
Im not signing off, she toldEllein 2020.
(On the contrary, shes signingon, with her just-launched podcast,Lets Be Clear.)
I feel like Im a very, very healthy human being.
She said more recently, My greatest memory is yet to come, in a December 2023Peoplecover story.
Im not done with living.
Just two years laterand just weeks before her weddingshe learned that the cancer had returned as metastatic.
I always say, Get busy living, not dying.
Get busy living with cancer, she recently toldParade.
Cancer was my gift.
It taught me to live and live out loud and live now.
Because tomorrow just may not come.
We say, Ill do it tomorrow.
Or next month, or next year.
That may not come, so do it now.
For more information on metastatic breast cancer, visit Susan G. Komen.
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