Shannen Doherty hopes she can “squeeze out another three to five years” to keep cancer research moving forward.
The 52-year-old former child star is currently battling breast cancer, but believes that if she can survive for the foreseeable future, medical advances will help her eventually beat the disease.
On Monday's episode of her podcast Let's be clearShannen said, “I always talk about the fact that we have to wait another three to five years, and then there will be T-cell therapy or this.
'There will be many more options that will add another five years. In those five years, there will be a whole different group of options, and eventually there will be a cure.”
Doherty's oncologist Dr. Lawrence Piro agreed, saying, “I always say it's important to think of any therapy as a horse, and in a horse race you want to ride every horse as long as it rides, and then you ride every so often possible next horse…
Shannen Doherty hopes she can 'squeeze out another three to five years' to keep cancer research moving forward amid her own incurable stage 4 metastatic breast cancer
'If you hope you can last a few laps, there will be a new set of horses to ride, making the race much longer.'
The iHeartPodcast podcaster responded, “I ride those horses so I can get to the new set of horses, and I try to make the one I'm on now last as long as humanly possible.”
Shannen has undergone a mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiation and brain surgery since she was diagnosed with incurable stage 4 metastatic 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 middle of divorcing her third husband Kurt Iswarienko after 11 years of marriage.
The 52-year-old former child star said on Monday in the episode of her podcast Let's Be Clear: 'Then there will be T-cell therapy or this. There will be many more options that give another five years. Then in those five years there will be a whole different group of options, and eventually there will be a cure.”
Doherty's oncologist Dr. Lawrence Piro agreed, saying, “I always say it's important to think of any therapy as a horse, and in a horse race you want to ride every horse as long as it rides, and then you ride every so often possible next horse… you hope you get a few laps, then there is a new set of horses to ride, to make the race much longer'
The iHeartPodcast podcaster responded, “I'm riding those horses so I can get to the new set of horses, and I'm trying to make the one I'm on now last as long as humanly possible.”