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Shannen Doherty reveals cancer has spread

"Pain is manageable," Shannen Doherty explains, "living without a breast is manageable, it's the worry of your future."

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Sad to report that actress Shannen Doherty has revealed her spread to the lymph nodes, prompting her to have chemotherapy.

“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,” Doherty told Entertainment Tonight. “So for that reason, we are doing chemo, and then after chemo, I’ll do radiation.”

The former Beverly Hills 90210 and Charmed actress also revealed she had a single mastectomy in May.

Doherty was diagnosed with breast cancer in February 2015, and has undergone three out of eight rounds of chemotherapy so far.

“The unknown is always the scariest part,” she continued. “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.”

After her hair began to fall out Doherty asked her mother to shave it all off. While it was traumatic at the time, she later shared photos on social media last month.

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“We did stages,” she recalls. “We did a pixie. And then we did a mohawk, which was my favourite look. And then finally, we had to get the shaver thing and just buzz it off.

“I wanted to put it out there the way it felt the best for me to put it out there,” she adds. “And also, if I could help one person then it makes me go, ‘Oh OK.’ It’s easier to live with having cancer if I know I’m helping at least one person.”

Las August Doherty decided to sue the company formerly in charge of her business affairs after they failed to pay her medical insurance.

Breast Cancer Network Australia.

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  1. It’s such sad news and then she had the added gut punch of finding out she didn’t have private insurance through no fault of her own. I really respect that she’s talking so openly about it, hopefully it will help other cancer sufferers feel less alone and encourage others to have a breast exam.

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