8-Year-Old Girl Suffers From Extremely Rare Breast Cancer

First Posted: Nov 27, 2015 03:00 PM EST
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Eight-year-old Chrissy Turner of Utah suffers from a rare form of breast cancer known as secretory breast carcinoma. The slow growing breast cancer typically seen in younger patients is so rare that it accounts for less than 1 percent of all breast cancers.

It was just a few weeks ago when Chrissy told her mother that she felt something in her breast. Soon after, she was diagnosed with the rare subtype of breast cancer.

Fortunately, the prognosis is usually favorable, according to the journal Pediatric Surgery International. A mastectomy is required as the treatment of choice, according to CNN, along with multiple PET (positron emission tomography) scans every year for five years.

"...it is very treatable," her physician, Dr. Brian Bucher at Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City, told ABC. "Chrissy will need to undergo a simple mastectomy... to remove all the remaining breast tissue to prevent this cancer from coming back."

To help the family out, you can visit Chrissy's GoFundMe page.

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