An 8-year-old Utah girl has been recently diagnosed with a rare type of breast cancer. Local doctors said she is so far the youngest such diagnosis they have ever seen.

According to the doctors, it is very rare that a girl at such a small age would have breast cancer. But yes its true, Turner has one of the rarest forms of the disease i.e. Secretory breast carcinoma.

The cancer diagnosed in Turner accounts for only 1% of all breast cancer cases, as per a report of ABC Utah. Turner learned that she has the rare disease after finding a lump in her chest in early November, her mother said.

Annette Turner, Chrissy’s mother, said, “She came to us on a Sunday afternoon, she said, ‘Mommy I have been scared and I have this lump. It had been there for a while. At first, the family couldn’t believe it. I was in shock”.

Her mother told they have a family history of cancer, she herself survived cervical cancer and her husband was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Chrissy is now set to undergo a simple mastectomy, her family said. They have also started a GoFundMe page in which they have asked for $100,000 in donations to help them bear the medical expenses of Chrissy’s treatments.

Secretory breast carcinoma was initially described as ‘juvenile’ breast cancer because of its association with children. Still, most of the cases with this rare cancer are found in adults, according to a 2011 study in the Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine.