Eight-year-old Chrissy Turner is just like any other young girl.
She’s from Utah, she makes her parents laugh, and she loves How To Train Your Dragon.
But unlike other eight-year-olds, she’s been hit with the type of trauma that’s made her a world record holder.
At the age of eight, she’s now the youngest person in the world to get breast cancer.
It’s a rare type of breast cancer called Secratory Carcinoma, and it only occurs in one in one million people. It’s considered a “juvenile” breast carcinoma, since it most often occurs in those under 30. It only occurs in 1 percent of breast cancer cases.
She came to her parents in October with a lump in her chest.
When asked what it was like to learn of Chrissy’s cancer her mother responded as any mother would. “I broke down,” said Annette. “It’s a struggle every day worrying about my family, about my husband and now my baby girl.”
This is because Chrissy isn’t the only Turner with a history of cancer.
Her mother is a survivor of cervical cancer. Her father has Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, which he was diagnosed with around the time Chrissy was born.
In fact, as of 2011, his cancer has resurged, and he goes to the doctor every three months to see if it’s spread enough to respond to therapy.
Meanwhile, Chrissy will need a mastectomy.
Family friend Melissa Papaj said on their GoFundMe page: “Chrissy’s case is being presented nationally and is being reviewed by top oncologists in the country along with being taken to the Utah state tumor board next week.”
How is Chrissy responding to all this?
“I was scared the first time I knew about it,” she said. “But I knew I could fight it off.” She hopes to fight through it.
Here is a link to her GoFundMe, where friends and family are helping raise money to pay for medical bills for both Chrissy and her father.
