YouTube gamer Ninja's shock cancer diagnosis at 32 after routine skin check-up
ok.co.ukYouTuber and pro gamer Ninja, whose real name is Tyler Blevins, has told fans he's got cancer after finding out at a check-up that his wife Jess set up for him.
He tweeted: "Alright I'm still in a bit of shock but want to keep you all updated. A few weeks ago I went in to a dermatologist for an annual skin/mole check that Jess proactively scheduled for me." At the doctor's, they saw something on his foot and Ninja said: "There was a mole on the bottom of my foot that they wanted to remove just to be careful.
It came back as melanoma, but they are optimistic that we caught it in the early stages." He also shared: "I had another dark spot appear near it, so today they biopsied that and 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.
I'm grateful to have hope in finding this early, but please take this as a PSA to get skin checkups," a reported by the Mirror.
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