Ninja, a video gaming star on Twitch, also known as Tyler Blevins revealed this week that he had been diagnosed with melanoma, a type of skin cancer.
Mr. Blevins, 32, said on social media on Tuesday that a mole was removed from his foot during an annual checkup and it came back as melanoma.
“It came back as melanoma, but they are optimistic that we caught it in the early stages,” he said.
In the post, Mr. Blevins said a second dark spot was found on his foot that had also been removed and was being checked, “with the hopes that under the microscope they will see clear non-melanoma edges and we will know we got it.”
Ninja became the multimillionaire face of the popular battle royale video game Fortnite, and has about 19 million followers on Twitch.
He also has more than 12 million followers on Instagram and 6 million followers on X.
Melanoma accounts for just about 1 percent of all diagnosed skin cancers, but causes a vast majority of skin cancer deaths.
The American Cancer Society estimated that doctors would diagnose about 100,640 new melanomas — about 59,170 in men and 41,470 in women — in the United States this year, and that about 8,290 people would die as a result.
