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Shatner, Daughter Target Cancer-Free Status by 2024

8/2/2026

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  • William Shatner announced he and daughter Melanie Gretsch will be cancer-free by end of 2024.
  • A second opinion diagnosed Shatner’s lump as stage 4 malignant melanoma after a doctor called it a salivary gland, prompting tumor-removal surgery and two years of immunotherapy.
  • After finding a breast lump a year before her father’s diagnosis and demanding testing after a mammogram, Gretsch received a diagnosis of HER2-positive breast cancer with chest lymph-node spread.