This 8-Year-Old Girl Is the Youngest Person Ever to Be Diagnosed with Breast Cancer

A cancer diagnosis is always devastating, but the story of Chrissy Turner is especially distressing: The 8-year-old was diagnosed with secretory breast carcinoma earlier this month after discovering a lump in her breast.
“She came to us on a Sunday afternoon. She said, ‘Mommy I have been scared and I have this lump,'" Chrissy’s mom, Annette Turner, tells ABC News. “It had been there for a while.”

Annette says she “was in shock" when she got her daughter’s diagnosis, adding, “no child should ever have to go through cancer.”

Secretory breast carcinoma is extremely rare (it affects just one in one million people), although it has occurred in children in the past, according to research published in the Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine journal. It also typically has a “favorable prognosis.”
Chrissy is the youngest known patient with this type of breast cancer, says Annette.
Chrissy’s doctors are confident that they can remove the tumor via a mastectomy. However, Chrissy will lose all of her breast tissue to prevent the cancer from coming back. It's unclear whether Chrissy will be able to develop breasts after her surgery, but according to the research published in the Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, "preservation of prepubertal breast tissue is important to ensure proper breast development; however, that is not always possible because of the location of the tumor."
Unfortunately, health battles aren’t new for the Turner family: Annette is a cervical cancer survivor, and her husband has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
"We're just going to keep fighting," Annette tells ABC4 Utah News. "Doing everything we can to smile every day and laugh every day and carry our head high and do our best to overcome this."

http://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/secretory-breast-carcinoma