8-year-old Chrissy Turner was diagnosed with a very rare breast cancer called secretory breast carcinoma shortly after she reportedly told her parents around mid of October that she had a lump on her chest. She is now scheduled to undergo mastectomy at the Huntsman Cancer institute during the first half of December and spend time recovering at the Primary Children's Hospital in Utah.
In an interview with Good Morning America on Tuesday, the family shared their story. Chrissy was said to have approached Anette and Troy Turner one Sunday afternoon in October and told them about the lump on her chest that have been there for some time and that it scared her.
Chrissy is the youngest daughter of Anette and Troy, both diagnosed with cancer. Anette is a cervical cancer survivor while Troy was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma in August of 2008. After reportedly been through eight months of chemotherapy, his cancer went into remission.
Troy underwent another PET CT scan in 2011 and according to reports, some cancer activity was detected but the cancer isn't responding to therapy because it growing at a slow phase thus, they are left in a "watch and wait" state to date. This phase requires Troy to visit his oncologist and undergo both a full exam and have some blood work done every three months.
The medical bills piled up and left the Turner family no choice but to file for bankruptcy back in 2013 as reported on the fund raising page on go fund me which was set up by a close family friend to help the family's medical expenses.
Chrissy has a very rare Secretory Breast Carcinoma. This type of cancer is very rare because it literally is accounted for less than 1 percent of all breast cancer cases according to a Pediatric Surgery International Journal report.
Although this is a very rare form of cancer, Dr. Brian Bucher of the Primary Children's Hospital in Utah and several other doctors concurred and said that "It is very treatable" and "can be removed." Chrissy is scheduled to undergo mastectomy on the first half of December to scrape off the remaining breast tissue to prevent this type of rare breast cancer from coming back.