Friends line up to support TV star Shannen Doherty as she reveals her battle with brain cancer

Tributes have poured in for American actress Shannen Doherty as she reveals she is now battling terminal brain cancer.

The Beverly Hills 90210 star was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015 and, in a video shared online Wednesday revealed that the disease had spread to her brain.

She shared a video of her starting radiation in January: “My fear is clear. I am extremely claustrophobic and a lot has happened in my life.’

Showbiz friends and fans showed up to share tributes and warm wishes. Sarah Michelle Geller wrote “you are a warrior,” as Selma Blair said, “I wish all the wise peace you have learned to find you in the moments of terror…Love. All love.’

Less than 15 percent of breast cancer patients will see it spread to the brain. Doherty announced she was in remission in 2017, but her cancer returned in 2019.

That year, she also shared the tragic reason she couldn’t have children, because hormones “immediately put my body into menopause,” and taking estrogen to reverse it could increase her cancer risk.

Fellow actor Selma Blair shared words of ‘love’ on Shannen’s profile after sharing the video

American filmmaker and actor Kevin Smith shared kind and personal words with Shannen

Shannen shared videos of her starting treatment in January on her page, prompting friendly messages of support

This week, the actor shared a video of himself Instagram receive treatment.

On Wednesday, she shared one secondfeaturing intimate scenes of her crying as she underwent a CT scan.

She described the scene: ‘January 12th the first round of radiation took place.

My fear is clear. I am extremely claustrophobic and a lot happened in my life.

“I’m lucky to have great doctors like Dr. Amin Mirahdi and the great technicians at Cedar Sinai.

But that fear…. The turmoil….. the timing of it all…. This is what cancer can look like.’

Fans on Twitter also went online to share their thoughts.

Doherty was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, indicating that it had reached stage two or three and had spread to her lymph nodes.

She underwent a mastectomy and when that didn’t fully resolve the problem, she received chemotherapy and radiation until she announced in 2017 that her cancer was in remission.

She announced this on Tuesday in early January undergo a CT scan who had brain metastases.

Each year in the US, approximately 264,000 breast cancer cases are diagnosed in women and approximately 2,400 in men. And those rates are rising.

In recent years, incidence rates have increased by 0.5 percent per year, which experts say may be due to an increase in obesity among women in general, as well as a decline in fertility rates and rising ages of women at their first birth .

Brain metastases, or the condition where cancer has spread to the brain, are rare in breast cancer patients from about 10 to 15 percent.

Shannen Doherty cries as she begins radiation therapy in January, in a video shared in June

Shannen Doherty is pictured with fellow 90210 star Luke Perry in Beverley Hills

Twitter users also wrote kind words on their profiles following the updates on Shannen’s page

A user on Instagram sympathized with Shannen and left a kind comment below the latest video

Health writer Benjamin Ryan wrote a tribute to the actor on Twitter after the update

Twitter users also shared fond memories of Doherty’s performances and sent the star best wishes.

One user, Dilian Esper, emphasized the importance of screening and detecting cancer early.

A leading health panel this year recommended reducing the age at which women are regularly screened for breast cancer from 50 to 40 years.

The change would save 20 percent more lives, according to the USPSTF, which drafted the proposal in response to rising rates among middle-aged women.