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For any copyright, please send me a message. Despite having stage four cancer, Shannen Doherty may have a lot of life ahead of her. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with a top oncologist, who revealed that the actress could absolutely still live a long life with her diagnosis. Shannen Doherty, 48, recently revealed that the breast cancer she struggled with in 2015 had returned a year ago, and now, she’s at “stage four”. During her Feb. 4 interview on Good Morning America, Shannen explained, “I don’t think that I’ve processed it. It’s a bitter pill to swallow. There are days when I say…why me? But then I go…well, why not me? Who else besides me deserves this? None of us do.” After the news emerged, HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY spoke with Dr. Carey Presant, former president of the American Cancer Society and a top clinical oncologist at City of Hope Los Angeles, one of the nation’s elite cancer hospitals. He explained that highly effective new treatments could allow Shannen to keep working and enjoying her life for many, many years to come, despite the return of her cancer. “It depends on a patient’s response [to treatment],” Dr. Presant explained. “You can’t predict right away exactly how well she’ll do, but many, many patients, about 80 percent to 90 percent, do have a good remission — and many of those patients will have a good quality of life and a much longer survival. Years — maybe even 10, 20 years.” That’s good to hear, and it’s not like she hasn’t beaten her diagnosis before. Shannen’s cancer went into remission in 2017 after a two year battle, but sadly returned at the beginning of 2019. She kept the diagnosis a secret for a full year, during which time she worked on and promoted the new BH90210 series with very few people knowing that she was sick again. “Shannen has had this stage 4 breast cancer for a year, and she’s continued to work and no one has noticed,” Dr. Preasant said. “She’s a truly courageous example of the fact that you can really survive well with stage 4 breast cancer and that you don’t have to be sick all the time and hanging on your diagnosis for the public to see.” Dr. Presant, who wrote the 2013 book Surviving American Medicine from iUniverse, also explained what you need to know about new breakthrough treatments if you or anyone you know has breast cancer. “There are some patients who are stage 4 who have very limited stage 4 disease, perhaps just one or two spots in the bone or perhaps several lymph nodes,” he said. “And although we say, ‘Well the goal then is to just control the disease that is never going to be cured’, there are some patients with very limited spread to other organs that have so little cancer there that, in fact, they may be able to be cured by treatment.” Th
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