45-year-old actress Shannen Doherty had stated back in February that she was diagnosed with breast cancer. After a single mastectomy in May, the disease has now spread to her lymph nodes.
Doherty revealed: “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. So for that reason, we are doing chemo, and then after chemo, I’ll do radiation.”
Due to this condition, the actress admits she fears for an unknown future.
“The unknown is always the scariest part. 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,” she stated.
Doherty shaved her hair after the chemotherapy treatment was causing it to fall out at a fast pace.
In a recent chat with Entertainment Tonight, she said: “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. I just remember holding onto huge clumps of my hair in my hands, and just running to my mom crying, like, ‘My hair, my hair, my hair, my hair.’ It was just shedding and it was driving me crazy.”
Her supportive husband, Kurt Iswarienko, was unable to be with the actress during this transition, but she recalled: “He was in Mexico working and he was texting nonstop in the middle of his photoshoot like, ‘Give me pictures, and are you ok? I wish I could be there.’ He was so stricken that he wasn’t there with me but I sent him pictures and videos and he was like, ‘Oh my god. You’re hot with no hair.’ So you know, everybody kind of made me feel better about it.”