Sydney Towle, a TikTok creator known for documenting her illness in real time, dies at age 26 following a battle with a rare bile duct cancer. Multiple outlets report that she was diagnosed in 2023 with cholangiocarcinoma, sometimes described as bile duct cancer. Towle built a large audience on TikTok by sharing updates on her condition and daily life, with reported follower counts growing to around one million or more, including figures such as nearly 900,000 and about 1.1 million followers across sources. Several articles note that she chronicled what she was experiencing publicly for her followers and that her content drew attention to living with serious illness. At least one source characterizes her disease as stage four. The outlets also describe her as having a positive or upbeat approach during her documentation. Her death is reported as having occurred after weeks in the public eye, with some coverage linking to her recent activity outside TikTok. Sources agree on her age, her cancer diagnosis and public documentation, and the size of the TikTok audience she accumulated.