Glamorous TikTok star Rachel Yaffe speaks about rare stage four liver cancer before her recent death.
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The young and 'active' Californian admitted that she had initially overlooked her symptoms and is now urging others via social media not to skip their regular health checkups. Cases of some types of cancers in young people have almost doubled in the US, even as rates have slowed or fallen in their parents and grandparents
'There are so many things I want to do now, given that I don't know how much longer I have, but I can't plan my bucket list or any fun trips while receiving treatment and not knowing where surgery will take me.' They discovered a 20cm tumor in her liver. She passed away on October 11 this year following a seven-year battle with the disease.
Obesity, sedentary lifestyles, and ultra-processed foods have been blamed for the rise in young people cancers, but doctors say that doesn't tell the full story. Doctors went on to discover 'innumerable' lung tumors and 15 liver cysts in her body, which they said could not be operated on. And this August, she completed a half triathlon retracing the route from the hospital where she was diagnosed to her summer home.Read More Subtle change in 11-year-old girl's eyes that was the first warning sign of a deadly brain tumour Mrs Hughes deems exercise as one of her saviors through living with cancer, along with her husband Ty.
She adds: 'What I didn't realize then, and what I've come to know and understand, is my life was just beginning. EHE - which has an incident rate of less than one million people in the US - is most commonly associated with young and middle-aged adults, and is more common in women.Other symptoms include a lump or swelling in the soft tissue of the body under the skin, and stomach pain along with weight loss if the disease is present in the liver.
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