Comedian, 36, diagnosed with stomach cancer this is the heartbreaking way he found out

Comedian Sidney Raz had no warning signs before doctors found stomach cancer growing inside him.The 36-year-old, best known for his viral “Life Hacks” videos, was diagnosed early, significantly improving his chances of beating the disease. But it wasn’t luck that led to the discovery.It was heartbreak. Back in March, Raz — whose real name is Sidney Raskind — took to social media to share devastating news: his daughter had died in utero at just 26 weeks due to holoprosencephaly, a rare condition where the brain fails to form properly.In the aftermath of the tragedy, the content creator and his wife underwent genetic testing to try to understand what had gone wrong.While doctors didn’t spot anything in their genes to explain the defect, they did find something else: Raz had a mutation in the CTNNA1 gene called a deletion — the same one his daughter had.“Because of that deletion, in recent years, it has been seen to cause certain types of cancer — specifically stomach cancer,” Raz shared in an Instagram video.  That genetic red flag prompted the influencer to undergo an endoscopy, where doctors found early-stage stomach cancer.“I had no symptoms,” Raz said in a later update. “It was literally just my daughter’s DNA that saved my life, and now there can be a path forward.” Doctors recommended removing his stomach entirely.

The surgery is scheduled for July.“The doctor said today that if I hadn’t caught it this early, I would be back within three years at stage three or four cancer,” Raz said.“So I might not have a stomach, but I’ll be here in three to four years.”Wondering how he’ll eat without a stomach? Raz broke it down on TikTok.

Surgeons will connect his esophagus directly to his intestine — so instead of food being digested in his stomach first, it’ll just go “straight down.”“I just have to chew a lot more, and retrain my body how to eat, so I can’t eat as much,” he said.“It’s gonna be a big adj...