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Knock Knock Eye: Sydney Towle's Legacy and the Isolation of Young Adult Cancer
I wanted to start this one off talking about Sydney Towle, a 26 year old TikToker who documented her stage four cholangiocarcinoma diagnosis with so much humor and honesty that it genuinely impacted me, even though I never knew her in real life. Her passing hit hard, and it brought back a lot of what I went through with my own testicular cancer diagnoses at 26 and again at 31. I talk about how isolating it is to get a cancer diagnosis as a young adult, how most of the research and attention goes to kids and older adults, and how organizations like First Descents helped me find my people when…
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