Eight-year-old girl from Utah diagnosed with breast cancer

Chrissy Turner, from Utah, found a lump in her chest last month, which turned out to be a “one in a million” type of cancer called secretory carcinoma.
“She came to us on a Sunday afternoon, she said, ‘Mummy I have been scared and I have this lump,’” Chrissy’s mother Annette Turner.
“It had been there for a while. She is the youngest that they’ve run across having this particular type of breast cancer.”
The youngest known sufferer of secretory carcinoma was a three-year-old Korean girl, according to medical literature from 2000, who was operated on after a chest growth was discovered.
In 2009 a 10-year-old American girl became the youngest person in the US to be diagnosed with breast cancer.
Chrissy will have a mastectomy next month and is determined to get well again.
“I was scared to figure out what it was,” she said. “But I knew I could fight it off and I hope that I can fight it off.

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