Shannen Doherty: “You’re being written off so quickly”

Shannen Doherty
“You’re being written off so quickly”

Shanen Doherty wants to change the public perception of cancer patients.

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Shannen Doherty wants to change the public perception of cancer patients: they shouldn’t be written off anytime soon.

Shannen Doherty (50) spoke about her life with breast cancer in the run-up to her new film “List of a Lifetime”. In a panel the actress explained according to “People”that she sees it as her responsibility to educate people. Accordingly, patients in the fourth stage of the disease are “very much active and lively.”

“Part of Life”

Doherty was diagnosed with breast cancer back in 2015. She achieved remission until the fourth stage cancer returned in 2020. “My husband says that it would never occur to me that I have cancer,” Doherty said today. “I’m not really complaining. I don’t really talk about it. At this point, it’s part of life.”

The film project “List of a Lifetime” is about a woman who develops a new relationship with her daughter after being diagnosed with cancer. Mother and daughter create a “bucket list” of the things they still want to do in their lives. Doherty doesn’t have such a bucket list himself: “I think a bucket list is strange in my particular situation. Because it would mean that I have to check things off before my time is over.”

She assumes she’ll be the longest-lived person with cancer. “If I had to name one point, it would be easy to live. That’s the only one on my list at this point.” Everyone only had a limited amount of time, Doherty said. “I may live longer than someone who is completely healthy. You can’t know.”

“You’re being written off so quickly”

But despite her hard work and vitality, Doherty seems to have to constantly fight against the stereotype of a person with cancer. “When I hear the words ‘cancer stage four’, I don’t want people to imagine a person who is gray and falls over and cannot move and cannot work and goes to the hospice,” said Doherty of her situation in an interview with “Entertainment Tonight”. “You will be written off so quickly, even if you are vital and healthy and happy and want to go out and work.”

Doherty speaks regularly about her illness and how she deals with it in order to encourage other sufferers. In October 2020 wrote Doherty on Instagram: “It’s not about being a warrior or a survivor. It’s about living and growing with cancer.” In an interview with “Elle” She also explained a year ago that she was dealing with death, for example by wanting to write farewell letters.

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