Twitch’s Top Streamer ‘in a Bit of Shock’ After Cancer Diagnosis

Top Twitch streamer Ninja, who is so popular that Fortnite players can purchase a look-alike skin to play as him, revealed on Wednesday that he has been diagnosed with skin cancer.

Tyler Blevins, a.k.a. Ninja, announced that he had early-stage melanoma in a post on X, saying he was “in a bit of shock” after he’d taken a visit to the dermatologist.

“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 wrote.

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