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Dolly Parton offered to try experimental drugs if "no hope" in her cancer battle

"She told me recently that if there was no hope for her, she would still allow her medical team to try experimental drugs in the hope of helping others in the future," Stella Parton said in a Facebook post.

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Death of Dolly Parton

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Dolly Parton died aged 80 on 25 August after a brief battle with cancer and has been laid to rest in a private Nashville funeral, interred at Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum alongside her late husband Carl Thomas.

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Dolly Parton has been laid to rest in a private Nashville funeral and interred alongside her husband Carl Thomas.

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Dolly Parton offered to try experimental drugs if "no hope" in her cancer battle

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Dolly Parton’s sister reveals singer offered to test experimental cancer drugs before she died

‘My sister was always thinking of others,’ Parton’s younger sister Stella wrote in a Facebook tribute Dolly Parton’s younger sister Stella Parton has shared a moving tribute to the late country music singer on Thursday, revealing that Dolly offered to receive experimental cancer drugs “in the hope of helping others in the future” – an act of kindness and generosity that extended until the end of her life. “My sister…

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