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Charmed and Beverly Hills, 90210 star Shannen Doherty has died, aged 53.
The American actor died of breast cancer on Saturday (13 July) after being diagnosed with the dieases in 2015.
“It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the passing of actress Shannen Doherty,” her publicist, Leslie Sloane, said in a statement, confirming the cause of her death.
Doherty went into remission in 2017 but, in February 2020, confirmed the cancer had returned to stage four. In June 2023, she shared a video of the brain radiation treatment she was receiving, revealing her cancer had spread to her brain.
Five months later, Doherty told her fans the cancer had spread to her bones, but said that she would keep fighting the disease through treatment because “I’m not done with living”.
Earlier this year, Doherty shared a “miraculous” health update, describing a new kind of treatment that she said felt like God “is intervening”.
She told her fans on an episode of her podcast Let’s Be Clear: “I’m on a new cancer infusion and after four treatments, we didn’t really see a difference and everybody wanted me to switch, and I just kinda was like, ‘We’re gonna keep going with this and see’ And yeah, after the sixth or seventh treatment, we really saw it breaking down the blood-brain barrier.”
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