TikTok star Dr. Kimberley Nix has passed away, three years after she was diagnosed with metastatic sarcoma.
She was just 31. Kimberley (AKA @cancerpatientmd) grew famous on Instagram and TikTok in 2021 after she started documenting her cancer journey.
She was just 28 and in the last year of her internal medicine core residency when she was first diagnosed with extra-skeletal osteosarcoma.
Doctors later determined she had undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma. She explained to People that “having an evolving diagnosis is common in sarcoma because there are over 100 subtypes.” Per the National Cancer Institute, undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma usually forms in the soft tissue (but it can form in the bone).