Watch : TikToker Sydney Towle Moved to Hospice Amid Rare Bile Duct Cancer BattleWith more than one million followers on TikTok, influencer Sydney Towle fielded a lot of questions in her DMs. Chief among them as she battled the rare bile duct cancer she was diagnosed with at age 23, the New Hampshire native detailed in a June 2026 video, "People always ask why I’m so positive." she wondered. "Nobody knows for sure what’s going to happen; like, miracles happen every day." One of Towle's final updates came weeks later—16 days before her family announced her death at the age of 26.