An influencer has revealed that he has been diagnosed with stomach cancer – despite having no symptoms – due to his unborn daughter’s DNA.
Sidney Raz is known for sharing his savvy life hacks with his 4.5m followers on TikTok.
The 31-year-old recently got candid about his health battle having been diagnosed with the disease after undergoing genetic testing to find out why his unborn daughter died at 26 weeks.
He claims doctors said that if it wasn’t detected this early, he would be “back within three years at stage 3 or 4 cancer”.
Sidney says he had no symptoms and that “it was literally my daughter’s DNA that saved my life”.
In a clip, which has racked up 2.6m views and over 208,00 likes, he reveals that he will now undergo a gastrectomy – total removal of the stomach – on 18 April, reports Need To Know.
“Everyone keeps asking me how I’m gonna eat with no stomach,” he begins.
Sidney then holds up a finished kitchen roll – dubbing that the oesophagus – and a bowl posing as his stomach.
He then takes another kitchen roll, calling it his intestines, and demonstrates how the body typically digests food, before showing how his body will following the procedure.
He continues: “My intestine is now going to be attached to my oesophagus and I’m gonna be what’s known in the business as a tubey.
“You eat the food and it just goes straight down.
“I just have to chew a lot more and retrain my body how to eat, so I can’t eat as much.”
Sidney notes it is going to be a “big adjustment” but that he doesn’t want cancer.
In a series of other videos, he details how he found out.
Sidney says that his unborn daughter died in September 2024 due to holoprosencephaly, a birth defect where the brain doesn’t form properly.
He and his wife underwent genetic testing to determine the cause and while it wasn’t clear, a genetic deletion that can cause stomach cancer was detected in him.
The content creator, based in Los Angeles, US, then had an endoscopy which confirmed his diagnosis.
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