10 Year old Breast Cancer Victim

No one likes to hear that someone has breast cancer, but especially when news is that someone is only a 10-year-old girl. That’s right it was announced that a 10 year old by the name of Hannah Powell-Auslam from California was diagnosed with breast cancer. Hannah only learned last month that she had it and she too was shocked.

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Many, myself included believe that a person cannot get breast cancer until they are adults, as we can see this is not always the case. Her family has decided to make a website chronicling her battle with the beast. Already she’s had a mastectomy to remove a 2 inch tumor from her left breast. Thankfully they caught this now. According to reports she kept getting an itch and couldn’t figure out why her left breast was getting the irritation. This should wake all of us parents up to any unusual knots or bumps in our children.

Fifth-grader Hannah Powell-Auslam felt a constant itch in her left breast. She wasn’t sure what was causing the irritation, so she went and asked her mom about it. When Carrie Auslam immediately discovered a hard mass in her daughter’s breast, she took her to the hospital as a precautionary measure.

Hopefully we’ll hear reports that she’s recovered and the cancer is completely gone.