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TikTok Creator Kiersten Dyke Dies at 25 After Stage 4 Melanoma Battle

Her partner’s account highlights melanoma’s aggressiveness despite early treatment.

Overview

  • Dyke’s death, disclosed Friday in a GoFundMe update, followed her passing on Sunday, April 26, according to posts by her boyfriend, Dominic Cinfio.
  • Cinfio said she became very ill early that week, had six liters of fluid drained, was intubated, briefly woke enough to see family, then developed sepsis and died.
  • She was first diagnosed with stage 2 melanoma in December 2022, reached stage 3 in late 2024, began immunotherapy in February 2025 and radiation in March, and learned it was stage 4 in June 2025 with spread to bones and organs.
  • Her boyfriend said doctors recently told her she had only months to live, and he wrote that she passed peacefully while surrounded by loved ones.
  • Dyke chronicled her cancer journey for thousands on TikTok and raised medical funds through GoFundMe, showing how melanoma can return after a disease-free year and advance quickly.