Influencer Rachel Yaffe Dead At 27

TikTok influencer Rachel Yaffe , who documented her battle with a rare form of liver cancer for several years, has died at the age of 27, according to an online obituary .

Yaffe died on October 11 and had "private" funeral services in her Maryland hometown this week. The TikTok star , who had more than 55,700 followers, revealed she was initially diagnosed with cancer at the age of 20 in a video shared last year.

“I went to a doctor over the summer, who knew me personally, and she felt around my whole body. She even felt my liver and she didn’t feel anything, but she was like, ‘I can tell in your eyes that you feel like something is wrong with you,’” Yaffe said. “I feel like everyone was making me feel like it was my anxiety, like, I was crazy. … I went the next day to get an ultrasound. I thought I was just allergic to gluten because I was also getting bloated.”

Yafee was found to have had a "20-centimeter tumor" on her liver by a specialist, which was later determined to be malignant.

“It is a super rare, adolescent liver cancer,” she said. “A few days later, I met with the surgeon, who told me he was going to remove it and that everything was gonna be fine, and I believed him.”

Yafee's cancer returned months later in her liver and lungs and quickly progressed to stage 4, which led to her moving back in with her parents in Maryland from New York City while undergoing proton therapy treatment.

“It made me feel super fatigued, tired, weak. I had some other complications and symptoms going on,” she revealed in August. “I finally started to feel a little bit strong enough to come back to New York, where my support system of friends are and where I also feel more inspired to go on walks and strengthen my body a little bit.”

Yafee later revealed she moved back to New York in a video shared last month, claiming she was "so happy" to be back after difficult treatment.

“I am so grateful to be back in my space, surrounded by my friends,” Yafee said at the time. “That alone has been really helpful for me mentally. I lost so much of my strength when I was getting radiation, and I’m starting from day one. It’s been hard for me to get up and move around.”