Who is Kyedae Shymko and what was she diagnosed with?

STREAMING star, Kyedae Shymko, has gained massive popularity on Twitch ever since joining the gaming platform in October 2020.

In March 2023, the YouTuber updated her loyal community with some unfortunate health news.

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Who is Kyedae Shymko?

Kyedae Alicia Shymko was born on December 1, 2001.

The 21-year-old is a Japanese-Canadian Twitch streamer and YouTuber who goes by Kyedae.

Her Valorant gameplay has earned her over 900k followers on YouTube and a whopping 2.2million on Twitch.

Kyedae is also well known for being a content creator for 100 Thieves - which she joined back in April 2021.

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Is Kyedae Shymko married?

Kyedae is engaged to Tyson Ngo, more famously known online as TenZ.

He is a professional e-sports player and a Twitch streamer who encouraged Kyedae to start her own streaming channel.

The pair first met back in high school and have since moved in together and share two dogs: Kuro and Mochigot.

On August 16, 2022, Kyedae took to Instagram to share some big news with her followers, writing: "WE ARE ENGAGED!!

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"Happy 3 years to my fiancé. You are the light of my life. One of a kind, irreplaceable. Thank you for being the best partner I could have ever hoped for."

What was Kyedae Shymko diagnosed with?

On March 3, 2023, Kyedae announced via Twitter that she had been recently diagnosed with cancer. 

"Hi everyone, I’ve recently been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (cancer)," she wrote.

"I’ll be starting up treatment very soon. With that being said I’m not too sure how my body will react to the treatment so I do apologize in advance if my stream schedule isn’t consistent! Stay safe <3"

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On Sunday, March 5, Kyedae took to Twitch to make the same announcement.

"Streams will probably get... less regular, considering like, with chemo. I'm sure a lot of you, or I'm sure some of you might know what it does to your body," she told her Twitch community on Sunday.

"And, like, I already feel quite sick. I'm trying, like, my best to put on a normal face in front. But I've been dealing with a lot of, like, health complications recently. Actually, for a little while now."

While streaming, Kyedae explained she had not yet shared the news with her family or fiancé at first.

"So I found about my cancer probably about two-and-a-half weeks ago. So it's been pretty recent. But I didn't... tell anyone actually," she said.

"Not even my mom or my dad, or Tyson, until after his tournament. Because I just wanted to make sure that he was fully focused on his game and his work, before I, like, broke the news."

Acute myeloid leukemia is the most common type of acute leukemia in adults, as per Cancer.gov.

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The disease affects the blood and bone marrow and must be treated immediately to prevent it from worsening.

It can be treated and is often curable with chemotherapy and with or without a bone marrow/stem cell transplant.