Doherty's cancer recurred in early winter 2019, and is now metastatic Stage 4 cancer. She can be treated but not cured; she's living with this disease for the rest of her life.
How is Shannen Doherty health?
Doherty was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, and went through treatment — which she documented on her Instagram — until her remission in April 2017. But in winter 2019, Doherty learned that it had recurred, and that it had become metastatic Stage 4 cancer — which is treatable, but not curable.
Is Shannen Doherty in remission?
Doherty, 50, was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2015 and revealed to USA TODAY in August 2016 that it had spread to her lymph nodes. After undergoing a single mastectomy that year, she completed radiation and chemotherapy treatments in February 2017; she announced she was in remission two months later.