Looks like Shannen Doherty's cancer has spread to her brain

I could post a link, but nah. Go dig up her IG and then scroll through until you find the post I want you to took at.

Hold on R1- I don't think that works with Instagram-

See if this works..

Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis!

🕯️

No, OP, just...

Damn. I had an MRI of my head recently for a sudden ringing in my ears, and it was incredibly unnerving. Similar to what they did here but I knew that the kind of tumor they were looking for (if they found anything) was benign. Turned out everything was fine and the ringing is just old age, but it’s really, really stressful.

OP we don't create posts such as this without including a link as default. You know better.

I thought it was an MRI, but folks with cancer histories on there said it was a radiation machine.... Maybe it is an MRI? Looks incredibly frightening.

Poor gal has been fighting this for so long. When things get past the blood-brain barrier, it's a whole different ballgame. Mad respect.

R6, when you say sudden ringing in your ears how sudden do you mean? I’ve noticed an increased ringing in one ear over the last 6 months or so. Now you’ve got me worried

^^That should be for r7

R11, you should get it checked out if it’s sudden and in only one ear. There’s a benign growth that can occur, it’s not life threatening at all but it could cause you to lose hearing in that ear. It’s not common though, and even though I had symptoms, it turns out I’m just getting old.

R11 I want to add, by sudden I mean it started one day out of the blue and hasn’t stopped. It’s been three months. If yours comes and goes, nothing to worry about, you’re just old too!

Thank you, r13/14. I am in my 50s now. I’ve always had low ringing in my ears; I only noticed it because it was getting stronger in one ear recently but it wasn’t overnight. I meant to ask my doctor last time I went for a physical but forgot. Eldergay memory issues too, haha

She captioned it with "January 9, 2023", so I am assuming this footage was from almost six months ago? It looks like the machinery they use for CT scans (I've had congenital heart problems/surgery, so I've have had several of them), which use ionizing radiation to photograph the body. This could be a more powerful machine used for radiation therapy, though—I don't know.

From a poster there-

This is actually what we call a CT Simulation. Basically where they take images and make the immobilization device that will be used for the radiation therapy treatments, which is done by a different machine. Radiation Therapist here

It looks like a CT machine to me too.

The mask looks so claustrophobic, the way she’s essentially strapped to that table by her head. I hope she has a good outcome.

Poor lady. Fuck cancer!

I really feel for her. She is a soldier.

Ringing in your ears is usually tinnitus.

I’ve had many MRIs on my head but never saw a device like that with a stick in my mouth. I’ve been enclosed in a head contraption but not this.

r22 It's radiation for cancer, different thing to a scanning device like MRI.

I wonder if the radiation is helping? If she started treatment at the time of this mask fitting, she’d be almost five months in. I hope it’s working and she’s improving.

I miss the old days when people just crawled off onto the woods and quietly died without drawing attention to themselves.

Perhaps you'd like to re-start that trend sometime soon, OP?

Here you go, R8.

I assume Tori S. has been plotting her media strategy for the moment when Shannen finally goes.

My heart goes out to Shannon and her family. Wish her well

^ what I was going to say. Getting and being ill is not for the weak!

How is she doing?

She’s been visiting Italy!

Beverly Hills 90210 was definitely not my jam. However, my mom had lung cancer with brain tumors. My mom was older than Shannen, though. I feel for anyone going through this. Seems like she's been fighting cancer for a long time.