An eight-year-old girl has been diagnosed with breast cancer, in what is thought to be the youngest case ever of the disease.
Chrissy Turner, from Utah, discovered a lump on her chest last month.
'It was about the middle of October she came to us with a lump on her chest and was scared,' her father Troy told ABC4 Utah News.
To her parents' horror, tests revealed she was suffering from a very rare form of breast cancer called secretory carcinoma.
This type of the disease affects just one in a million people diagnosed with the disease - and Chrissy will now need to undergo a mastectomy.
'I was scared the first time I knew about it,' she said. 'But I knew I could fight it off and I hope that I can fight it off.
Both of her parents have suffered from cancer previously.
Culled from Daily Mail
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