VIDEO: Shannen Doherty In Remission After Battling Cancer For 2 Years

Cancer is one of the most horrible, tough diagnoses one could get, but Shannen Doherty decided to fight it and not lose hope. She was diagnosed with breast cancer back in August, 2015. She struggled, suffered and at times doubted everything, but she pulled through. After nearly two years of battle, Shannen shared news on April 28, 2017 that she is in remission.

Here is some additional information on Shannen Doherty, provided by Wikipedia.

Shannen Maria Doherty is an American actress, producer, author, and television director.

Doherty was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of Rosa, a beauty parlor owner, and Tom Doherty, a mortgage consultant. Doherty has Irish Catholic ancestry on her father’s side and English, Scottish, and Scots-Irish ancestry on her mother’s side. She was raised in her mother’s Southern Baptist denomination.

Doherty’s first major motion picture role was in “Heathers”, released in 1989. She garnered worldwide attention and fame for her breakout role as Brenda Walsh in the Aaron Spelling-produced TV series “Beverly Hills, 90210” in 1990. In 1991 and 1992 her portrayal of Brenda earned her a Young Artist Award nomination for Best Young Actress Starring in a Television Series. Doherty left the show after the fourth season in 1994. Her character was written off the show as moving to London to attend school at the Royal Academy for Dramatic Arts.

On October 11, 1993, Shannen Doherty was married to Ashley Hamilton, son of actor George Hamilton; they divorced in April 1994.

In 2002, Doherty married Rick Salomon, but the marriage was annulled after nine months. On October 15, 2011, Doherty married Kurt Iswarienko, a photographer, in Malibu, California.

In January 1993, California’s United Bank took Doherty to court for $36,000 claiming she had bounced more than 70 checks.

In 2001, Doherty was sentenced to either 10 days in jail or 20 days of work-release duty and three years’ probation and was ordered to pay a $1,500 fine for drunk driving.

Doherty is a registered Republican. According to Complex magazine, she said: “I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I’m a Republican.”

An avid animal rights activist, Doherty is a supporter of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and while performing the Ice Bucket Challenge in 2014 she challenged founder Paul Watson and global supporters of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

Doherty announced in 1999 that she was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease.

Doherty was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2015, which had spread to her lymph nodes. In February 2016, Doherty revealed that she was receiving anti-estrogen treatment to shrink the tumor and enable treatment by lumpectomy rather than mastectomy. Due to the presence of multiple tumors, a lumpectomy was not possible, so a single mastectomy was performed in May 2016. Surgery revealed that “one of the cancer cells was protruding out of the lymph node.” Because the cancer was more advanced than previously thought, Doherty underwent chemotherapy and radiotherapy following surgery. On April 29, 2017, Doherty announced that her cancer was in remission.

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