Actress Shannen Doherty is letting her social media followers in on the spread of her breast cancer.
The “Beverly Hills, 90210” star on Tuesday posted a video on her verified Instagram account of her receiving treatment as tears filled her eyes. The caption on the video began, “January 12, 2023.”
The "Charmed" star was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015.
Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagic/Getty Images“On January 5th, my ct scan showed Mets in my brain. Yesterdays video was showing the process of getting fitted for the mask which you wear during radiation to your brain,” the caption reads. “January 12, the first round of radiation took place.”
“My fear is obvious. I am extremely claustrophobic and there was a lot going on in my life,” Doherty, 52, wrote. “I am fortunate as I have great doctors like Dr Amin (Mirhadi) and the amazing techs at cedar sinai. But that fear…. The turmoil….. the timing of it all…. This is what cancer can look like.”
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The “Charmed” star was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015 that went into remission two years later. In 2020, Doherty announced the cancer had returned, spread and was stage 4.
**FILE**In this Jan. 22, 2005 file photo, actress Shannen Doherty walks on a Park City, Utah, street at the Sundance Film Festival, in Park City, Utah. Doherty will reprise her role as Walsh in CW's new version of the 1990-2000 series "Beverly Hills 90210," the network said at a meeting of the Television Critics Association in Beverly Hills Saturday, July 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
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**FILE**Actress Shannen Doherty holds Pinky before the start of a pet fashion show on Feb. 11, 2005, in New York. The 35-year-old actress, who has two ex-husbands and a reputation for being difficult, needed her dad's help to dump a former boyfriend. "Everybody thinks that I'm this really, really strong woman who would have absolutely no problem breaking up with somebody," Doherty said this week at the Television Critics Association's summer meeting in Pasadena, Calif.(AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)
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Actress Shannen Doherty poses on the press line at the premiere party for the new television series "90210" in Malibu, Calif. on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008.(AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)
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Actress Shannen Doherty, right, and an unidentified man pose together at a benefit gala for The Art of Elysium in Los Angeles on Jan. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)
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Shannen Doherty, right, arrives at the premiere of "Race to Witch Mountain" in Los Angeles on Wednesday, March 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
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Kurt Iswarienko and Shannen Doherty attends the Entertainment Weekly and Women In Film Pre-Emmy Party, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo / Shea Walsh)
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - OCTOBER 26: Actress Shannen Doherty arrives at 13th Annual Hollywood Awards Gala Ce at the Beverly Hills Hilton on October 26, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Images)
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Shannen Doherty attends the G-Star Fall 2010 collection, in New York, on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)
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FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2010 file photo, actress Shannen Doherty attends the G-Star Fall 2010 collection, in New York. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)
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Actress Shannen Doherty and boyfriend Kurt Iswarienko attend 'The Gentleman's Ball' hosted by GQ Magazine at the Edison Ballroom on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
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Shannen Doherty, left, and husband Kurt Iswarienko participate in a panel for the new television show "Shannen Says" on WE tv during the AMC Networks portion of the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena , Calif. on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok)
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HOLLYWOOD, CA - MARCH 11: Shannen Doherty at The World Premiere of Walt Disney Pictures "Race to Witch Mountain" on March 11, 2009 at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Invision/AP Images)
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FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2010 file photo, actress Shannen Doherty, right, and Kurt Iswarienko attend 'The Gentleman's Ball' hosted by GQ Magazine at the Edison Ballroom in New York. Doherty and husband Iswarienko sued her former accountants and business managers on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015, accusing them of mismanaging her money and causing the cancellation of her health insurance in 2014. The "Beverly Hills 90210" star's lawsuit states Doherty was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and her doctors have told her it worsened during the period when her health insurance had lapsed. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2015 file photo, Shannen Doherty attends the 4th Annual Baby2Baby Gala in Culver City, Calif. Doherty wrote on Instagram April 28, 2017, that her breast cancer is in remission. (Photo by John Salangsang/Invision/AP, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2012, file photo, Shannen Doherty participates in a panel for the television show "Shannen Says" on WE tv during the AMC Networks portion of the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif. Doherty will guest star in the season four premiere of "Riverdale," which is set to honor Luke Perry. The show's executive producer, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, made the announcement Sunday at Comic-Con in San Diego. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok, File)
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Gabrielle Carteris, from left, Brian Austin Green, Shannen Doherty, Ian Ziering, Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling participate in Fox's "BH90210" panel at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
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