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Dolly Parton Offered to Test Experimental Cancer Drugs, Sister Says

Dolly Parton's younger sister, Stella Parton, said in a Facebook tribute that the late country singer offered to receive experimental cancer drugs if her medical team saw no hope for her recovery, hoping it might help others in the future. Stella described her sister as "always thinking of others."

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"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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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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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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