TikTok’s Sydney Towle, 25, Cries Giving Emotional Update Amid Cancer Battle
TikTok star Sydney Towle is offering an emotional update amid her cancer battle.
“I’m obviously not at chemo,” Towle, 25, said through tears in a Tuesday, June 17, TikTok video. “It’s the first time I have gone in and they’ve said, ‘This isn’t good.’ Which obviously is not what you want to hear when you have cancer.”
Towle explained that she is getting a hepatic pump — a device that delivers chemotherapy directly to the liver — placed on June 30.
“I’ll be in the hospital for four to five days,” Towle shared. “I didn’t talk about it because I was scared this was going to happen. I was supposed to go on a trip and leave June 30. So obviously I just canceled the trip. Hopefully I’ll still get to take it someday.”
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Towle noted that she will also be on a “new form of chemo” in addition to the pump, calling the treatment “experimental.”
“This just isn’t what I thought my life was going to be like,” Towle said while crying, noting that she received advice to not lose her “positive attitude.” While admitting that she’s “trying not to,” Towle said, “There’s only so much that you can keep.” The video ended with Towle crying into her hands.
Towle was diagnosed with bile duct cancer at age 23 after experiencing a burning sensation in her stomach. According to Mayo Clinic, this type of cancer typically occurs in people over the age of 50 but it can be diagnosed at any age.
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“I almost had an idea it was cancer,” she told People in May while reflecting on her diagnosis. “We all know our bodies pretty well. And when this started happening, I just had a feeling. When I went in for the ultrasound and they found the solid mass, I told myself, ‘Honestly, yeah, I’m just going to have to accept that this is probably cancer.’ So when they actually said it, I wasn’t really shocked.”
The influencer — who graduated from Dartmouth College in 2022 — has amassed more than 800,000 followers on the social media platform, where she candidly shares updates on her journey bile duct cancer journey.
“I literally get stopped in the street,” she told The New York Times in May. “I’ll get stopped at chemo. I’ll get messages and comments from people being like, ‘You have no idea how the videos you’re posting keep me going.’”
