4 Year Old Survives Breast Cancer

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I read about this in a magazine yesterday...such an amazing story about a mom who found a lump in her daughter's breast at age 2:

Sources:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41161182/ns/today-today_health/

http://www.lex18.com/news/four-year-old-survives-breast-cancer

"She's not old enough to wear a bra, but Aleisha Hunter battled and beat a woman's disease.
Last summer, the 4-year-old Toronto girl underwent surgery after she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Melanie Hunter discovered the lump in her daughter's breast when she was just 2-years-old. Doctors originally thought it was just a cyst, but when the lump continued to grow and become painful, further testing at the Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto revealed Aleisha had juvenile breast carcinoma last May.
Surgeons performed a radical mastectomy and also removed 16 lymph nodes under her arm."

"She asked me the other day if her booby is going to come back. I said, 'No, when you're older the doctors will give you a new one,' her mother told the Spectator."

It makes me feel for all the parents who have young children diagnosed with cancer..I can't even imagine. I guess it just shows to be aware of anything weird going on with your child (behaviorally or physically)...you never really know if something odd could be something very seriously wrong. My thoughts and prayers are with the little girl and her mom.
 
Wow....This is...just Amazing.. My aunt had breast cancer.(She lost both of em) and had cancer in her leg(That went too) and ended with heart cancer.(Where sadly she died...)

But for someone so young.....Im glad she is ok. Im glad its gone. she dosent have to go though what my aunt went through. no one should go though what my aunt went through.
 
Bless the little angel. I'm glad she's getting better. Such a fighter this girl is! Cancer is really hard to take. And it's a subject I'm really sensitive with.

So hearing such a youngin' like her make it through is really uplifting.
 
Wow. It's sad when anyone gets it, but I hope she won't be treated unfairly in school because of it. At least when things like this happen to adults, they've been able to enjoy a good portion of their life without the problem. Starting out with a serious health problem so early in life really sucks.
 
The cancer this little girl had is very rare. She had juvenile breast carcinoma and less than 0.01% of breast cancer is this type of cancer. Its sooooooooo rare. Thankfully her mom caught it in time...and its great that she doesn't have to go through any horrible chemo...they are obviously pretty sure they got it all.


Here was a picture they had in my magazine:
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When she was recovering from her surgery they gave her teddy his own oxygen mask to wear.
 
That's amazing and very sad as well.

"She asked me the other day if her booby is going to come back. I said, 'No, when you're older the doctors will give you a new one,' her mother told the Spectator."
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I'd burst into tears if my little niece had gone through such an ordeal and asked me that.

She's a very adorable baby.
 
I'm glad she managed to get though it, unless cancer has had some kind of personal effect on you or your family, friends etc, it's quite easy to forget the sort of people that can get it. It's quite depressing really that a four year old can get it, but at the same time, it's not unexpected, when I did the relay for life with my ex we met a girl who had cancer twice and she was only 10. But she seemed mentally unaffected by it, she had the most amazing, positive outlook on life ever regardless of what she'd been through D:
 
It's annoying when this sort of thing happens to a little child.

She doesn't even have breasts and yet she has breast cancer?

How unfair is that!

Good thing the mother found it when she did.

I would be so annoyed if I ever got breast cancer. There's nothing there to cut out as it is! You need breasts to have breast cancer! :rage:

Obviously not seeing this story but that's how I feel. =(
 
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