The scary part was she was too afraid to tell her mother till it had grown to the point it had to be removed and the mother noticed nothing. Its a common problem in catching these cancers early combined with some doctors not wanting to do tests or parents not having the money to make regular doctor visits.For months, eight-year-old Chrissy Turner went to bed each night hoping the strange lump in her chest would just go away.
The little girl was terrified to tell her parents, but finally, white-faced with fear, she managed to gather enough courage to confide in her mother.
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Her parents immediately took her to the doctor. A biopsy taken at Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City showed she had a rare form of breast cancer.
"My little girl was not supposed to have cancer," her father, Troy, told INSIDE EDITION.
His daughter agonized over losing her hair and feeling sick from radiation treatments.
But the treatment included more radical measures.
Chrissy would have to undergo a double mastectomy, doctors said.
"Our eight-year-old daughter going in for a mastectomy ... you can't wrap your head around it," said her mother, Annette. "It's surreal."
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As she was wheeled into surgery, the child asked: "Am I going to live through this? Is everything going to be OK?"
As it turned out, everything is fine.
Surgeons found no trace of cancer in the lymph nodes under her arm.
"Our faith has increased even more so," said her dad. "And gives us the hope we need to have that positive outlook on life."
My niece Ariel got Leukemia at three, in the two weeks leading up to it, my sister noticed she was in pain and asked the doctor what was wrong only for him to blow her off and refuse to do testing, so she went to Bronson and told them straight up something was wrong and to test which they did and found the leukemia at an early enough stage to successfully treat it. So I can sympathize with this family.
But shit, a mastectomy at 8.
