Ninja, one of Twitch and YouTube's most popular video game streamers, shares his cancer diagnosis
Popular video gaming streamer Tyler Blevins, known as Ninja to his millions of fans online, shared on Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with skin cancer.
Popular video gaming streamer Tyler Blevins, known as Ninja to his millions of fans online, shared on Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with skin cancer.
In a post on X, Blevins, 32, who is the most followed person on Twitch, said he is "still in a bit of shock" about the news, which he learned during an annual skin/mole check appointment with his dermatologist.
"There was a mole on the bottom of my foot that they wanted to remove just to be careful," he wrote in the post. "It came back as melanoma, but they are optimistic that we caught it in the early stages."
There was a second dark spot near the mole, which has also been biopsied, he said, and that doctors "removed a larger area around the melanoma with the hopes that under the microscope they will see clear non-melanoma edges and we will know we got it."
He urged his followers to get their skin checked.
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