Shannen Doherty hopes she can ‘squeeze out another three to five years’ to allow cancer research to progress.
The 52-year-old former child star is currently battling breast cancer but believes that if she can stay alive in the near future, medical advancements will help her to eventually beat the disease.
On Monday’s episode of her podcast Let’s Be Clear, Shannen said: ‘I always talk about the fact that we just need to squeeze out another three to five years, and then there’s going to be T-cell therapy or there’s going to be this.
‘There’s going to be a lot more options that will give another five years. Then in those five years, there’s a whole other group of options, and eventually there’s going to be a cure.’
Doherty’s oncologist Dr. Lawrence Piro, agreed, saying: ‘I always say that it’s important to think of each therapy as a horse, and in a horse race, you want to ride every horse as long as it rides, and then you ride the next horse as much as possible…
Shannen Doherty hopes she can ‘squeeze out another three to five years’ to allow cancer research to progress amid her own incurable metastatic Stage 4 breast cancer
‘You hope you make it a few laps then there’s altogether another new set of horses to ride, to make the race that much longer.’
The iHeartPodcast podcaster replied: ‘I’m riding those horses so I get to the fresh set of horses, and I’m trying to get the one I’m on right now to last for as long as humanly possible.’
Shannen has undergone a mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiation, and brain surgery since she was diagnosed with incurable metastatic Stage 4 breast cancer in 2015.
Doherty’s cancer which went into remission in 2017 before returning with a vengeance in late 2019.
The Tennessee-born brunette is also in the midst of divorcing her third husband Kurt Iswarienko after 11 years of marriage.
The 52-year-old former child star said on Monday’s episode of her podcast Let’s Be Clear: ‘Then there’s going to be T-cell therapy or there’s going to be this. There’s going to be a lot more options that will give another five years. Then in those five years, there’s a whole other group of options, and eventually there’s going to be a cure’
Doherty’s oncologist Dr. Lawrence Piro, agreed, saying: ‘I always say that it’s important to think of each therapy as a horse, and in a horse race, you want to ride every horse as long as it rides, and then you ride the next horse as much as possible… you hope you make it a few laps then there’s altogether another new set of horses to ride, to make the race that much longer’
The iHeartPodcast podcaster replied: ‘I’m riding those horses so I get to the fresh set of horses, and I’m trying to get the one I’m on right now to last for as long as humanly possible’
