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Influencer Patricia White dead at 30, followers mourn loss

Social media is mourning the loss of Spanish influencer Patricia Rite, who tragically died at age 30 following a courageous battle with skin cancer.

The social media star’s family confirmed her passing in a statement on April 16.

“Patricia left us. Her mother and her relatives ask for respect in these hard times,” they wrote, per Jam Press. “Thank you to all the people, who in one way or another, gave her support and love during this time, directly or indirectly.”

The Huelva native had been a fixture on social media, frequently posting content on fashion and cosmetics to her TikTok and Instagram pages, where she collectively amassed over 340,000 followers.

She also appeared on the Spanish reality TV dating show “Mujeres y Hombres y Viceversa.”

Rite’s life took a turn four years ago, however, when the budding star was diagnosed with skin cancer after she went to the doctor to remove a birthmark, Euro reported.


Rite was diagnosed with skin cancer during an appointment to have her birthmark looked at.
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Patricia Rite.
Rite boasted over 340,000 followers across Instagram and TikTok before her death.
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Rite would use social media to spread awareness about her condition.
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Despite the devastating news, the influencer continued to post prolifically, using her platforms to spread awareness about the insidious condition.

In her final Instagram video on April 5, Rite addressed fans from her hospital bed.

“Busy week, I was going to be treated on Tuesday but was finally admitted to hospital and treated on Friday,” she explained. “Since then, bad vomiting with an achy body until yesterday. I couldn’t move from the bathroom and I felt terrible.”

The brave Instagrammer added, “Today, I feel a little stronger. Since yesterday, I haven’t vomited and I’ve started eating, which I hadn’t done since Friday, and I’m starting to improve. Let’s go little by little.”


Rite often posted updates from her hospital bed.
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Rite’s legions of supporters were devastated over her loss.

“A huge hug to the whole family, I’m so sorry from the bottom of my heart,” wrote one mourner, while another lamented, “I cannot believe it. Life is super unfair, Patri.”

“Fly high, ever since I met you, you inspired me,” said a third bereaved follower. “My heart just skipped a beat. RIP precious, and a huge hug to her mother, family and friends.”


Rite’s family confirmed her death in a statement.
Jam Press/@patricia_rite

Unfortunately, skin cancer’s innocuous-seeming symptoms often make it difficult to diagnose it until it’s too late.

Last year, Australian model and influencer Oceana Strachan had her life turned upside down after a seemingly harmless freckle turned out to be a life-threatening melanoma.

Thankfully the Aussie survived the horrific ordeal, which she credited to detecting the disease early.



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Latest Melanoma Brain Metastasis Study Could Lead to New Therapies, Unearth Cause Behind Tumour in Brain

Despite some immunotherapies been proven to be effective in treating melanoma brain metastases, researchers remain clueless about the reason behind the tumour’s spread to the brain. Now, through an extensive study of the cells inside melanoma brain metastases, researchers have unravelled details about the condition which could lead to the development of new therapies.

Melanoma is a type of skin cancer and brain metastasis is a condition that occurs when cancer spreads from the original site to the brain. Brain metastasis is behind most cancer-related deaths and most of the cases have been recorded with advanced melanoma.

In the study, published in Cell, researchers from the Columbia University Irving Medical Center began by sourcing frozen metastatic tumours from dozens of melanoma patients. “Such studies are typically performed on fresh brain samples, which are in short supply, drastically limiting the number of tumours that can be analysed. In contrast, we have many frozen melanoma samples in our tissue bank,” said study leader Benjamin Izar, MD, PhD, and assistant professor of medicine at the university.

Izar added that the technique allowed them to see the biology of the tumour and its microenvironment by helping them analyse tissues from patients who were not treated. After analysing genes in more than 1,00,000 individual cells, the researchers have noted that melanoma brain metastases were more chromosomally unstable than melanoma metastases in other parts of the body.

According to Johannes C. Melms, MD, a molecular postdoctoral fellow in the Izar lab and one of the study’s first authors, the chromosomal instability process triggers signalling pathways that end up facilitating the spread of cells and suppressing the immune system.

“Several experimental drugs that reduce chromosomal instability are going to be tested in humans soon. We now have a rationale to evaluate these drugs in patients with melanoma metastases in the brain,” said Melms.

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