# 8 Year Old Diagnosed With Breast Cancer

- Link: https://stayathomemum.com.au/wellbeing/health-checks/8-year-old-diagnosed-with-breast-cancer/
- Published: 2015-11-26T12:00:12+11:00
- Author: Cherie Bobbins

### _“I never would have imagined that we would be going through something like this with one of our babies.” Annette Turner_

To say that Annette and Troy Turner from Utah, USA, have been through hell and back
would be an understatement.�A series of tests on their daughter Chrissy�confirmed
an incomprehensible result.

Their 8 year old daughter who is in third grade has been diagnosed with breast cancer
and will undergo a mastectomy, all while exuding a humbling positive attitude “…
she’s got the wit of someone far beyond her age,” describes her mother.

“It was about the middle of October she came to us with a lump on her chest and 
was scared,” Troy Turner said.

“It is a very rare form of breast cancer,” Annette said. “It’s called Secretory 
Carcinoma. Only 1 in one million are diagnosed and she is the youngest that they’ve
run acrossed having this particular type of breast cancer…I broke down. It’s a struggle
every day worrying about my family, about my husband and now my baby girl.”

⌊8 year old diagnosed with breast cancer | stay at home mum⌉⌊8 year old diagnosed
with breast cancer | stay at home mum⌉This is not the family’s first run in with
cancer. Annette�battled and overcame�cervical cancer and Troy, was diagnosed with
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma when Chrissy was a baby.

“She was our therapy when he was going through chemotherapy,” Annette said.

Chrissy and her parents know that she has a difficult battle ahead of her. It will
start at the Huntsman Cancer Institute where she will undergo a mastectomy.

“I was scared the first time that I knew about it,” Chrissy said. “But I knew that
I could fight it off and I hope that I can fight it off.”

“You can do this,” Annette assures her.

Family friends have launched a�[Go Fund Me�](https://www.gofundme.com/chrissysalliance)
campaign to raise money for Chrissy’s medical bills. The family had to file for 
bankruptcy in 2013 after the financial strain of their own battles with the horrific
disease.

“We’re just going to keep fighting,” Annette said. “Doing everything we can to smile
every day and laugh every dayand carry our head high and do our best to overcome
this.”

![author avatar](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/faf9bf00a26043f5f3422df4dbfa751e3e1b5279ccc74bc4a3aa33e76430fc1d?
s=300&d=mm&r=pg)

 Cherie Bobbins

 Cherie Bobbins creates an authentic account of motherhood from the front-lines 
with a central theme of empowering other mothers through Cherie's first hand experiences.
Her aim for every piece of content created is to serve someone, sparking them to
exclaim, "OMG, Cherie Bobbins totally gets me, it's exactly what I needed and I 
am not alone!"� Residing in Melbourne, experiencing four seasons in one day, Cherie
has had an overflowing, clean basket of laundry on rotation since January 2015. 
Cherie is a life hacker, professional laundry dodger and mother of two.

 [See Full Bio](https://stayathomemum.com.au/author/cheriequilts/) [  ](https://stayathomemum.com.au/author/cheriequilts/)