A painful health condition on the rise in young women - and a radical treatment option - prevented Dolly Parton from becoming a mother.

Dolly Parton's cause of death has been revealed as a brief battle with cancer, where she was hospitalized at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

Her death came after in May 2026 she announced she was canceling a Las Vegas show and said she’d been undergoing treatment for kidney stones for several years.