32-year-old YouTuber shares his terminal cancer diagnosis in really moving video
British YouTuber PeeWeeToms has shared his terminal cancer diagnosis in a powerful vlog.
The 32-year-old vlogger — whose real name is Dan — was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in 2015 -- "a type of sarcoma and carcinoma called a sarcomatoid carcinoma."
He's been charting his cancer journey on his YouTube channel.
"This video's not gonna be easy," he says in the video, before reading aloud his scan results he'd been given by doctors. "They can't do surgery, they can't even amputate my arm, or part of my chest, you might notice my voice is going weird as well."
PeeWeeToms explained that doctors told him he has "extra metastasis" in his left lung, mass growth on his chest wall, "mass metastasis" in his liver, and bone cancer. "Life expectancy now is not very long. At all," he said. "It's just devastating."
PeeWeeToms vowed that he's determined to keep fighting "for time" but noted that he's "struggling now."
"I need to make the most of it. I need to really make the most of the time I've got left with the ones that I love and everyone, which I will do," he said. "And I'll still put some fucking exciting videos out for you and some cool stuff."
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Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
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