Beloved TikToker Who Documented Battle With Rare Bone Cancer Dies at 22

Beloved TikTok star Leah Smith died Monday after a years-long battle with a rare bone cancer, her boyfriend revealed in a heartbreaking post to her TikTok account on Tuesday.

Smith, only 22, had used TikTok to document her battle with Ewing’s Sarcoma—a rare bone disease that typically only impacts children and young adults.

The English TikToker, who had more than half a million followers, first revealed her diagnosis in 2020, saying she received the horrifying news after she lost all feeling in her left leg and visited a doctor. She’d previously ignored 10 months of back pain prior to her diagnosis, unaware of the horrific cause of the aches.

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