Blisstree » 10 year old breast cancer http://www.blisstree.com Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:25:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 10-year-old Fighting Rare Breast Cancer http://www.blisstree.com/articles/10-year-old-fighting-rare-breast-cancer/ http://www.blisstree.com/articles/10-year-old-fighting-rare-breast-cancer/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:18:26 +0000 Marijke Durning, RN http://www.blisstree.com/?p=91723 Post from: Blisstree

10-year-old Fighting Rare Breast Cancer

]]> Breast cancer. After skin cancer, it’s the most common cancer in women in the United States. American women have a one in eight chance of developing some type of breast cancer in their lifetime. The American Cancer Society says that xchng_girl_walking“an estimated 192,370 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed among women in the United States.” But, as shocking at the numbers may be, it’s not new news. We’ve heard it all before.

Imagine now, a 10-year-old girl discovering a lump in her breast tissue – a lump that turns out to be cancer. Not only that, the type of cancer she has is so rare, it only affects .15% of women who have breast cancer. That 10-year-old girl is Hannah Powell-Auslam of Fullerton, California, and she discovered she had cancer this past April.

Breast cancer in adolescents isn’t unheard of, but to have such a rare type of adult cancer is virtually unknown. Her doctors aren’t sure why Hannah developed the breast cancers, although there are a couple of theories. One is that she could be carrying the gene that makes breast cancer more common in certain families, or it could be because of all the pollutants in the air, settling in the breast tissue as the breasts begin to develop.

Hannah has had a mastectomy and is undergoing chemotherapy. If you’d like to see a clip about Hannah, click on the TV screen below. You can also visit the website Hannah’s parents put up to share Hannah’s story: Our Little Sweet Pea .

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]]> http://www.blisstree.com/articles/10-year-old-fighting-rare-breast-cancer/feed/ 0 10 Year old Breast Cancer Victim http://www.blisstree.com/articles/10-year-old-breast-cancer-victim/ http://www.blisstree.com/articles/10-year-old-breast-cancer-victim/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 04:20:52 +0000 Eliza Ferree http://www.blisstree.com/?p=88299 Post from: Blisstree

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.

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