8-year-old girl with breast cancer undergoing mastectomy

Chrissy Turner is like any other young girl, but doctors say Turner's condition is almost unheard of.

"(She has) a very rare form of breast cancer called Secretory carcinoma," her mother, Annette Turner, said. Only one in 1 million (people) are diagnosed, and she is the youngest that they've run across.”

Chrissy noticed something was wrong in October.

"She came to us with a lump on her chest and was scared," Chrissy's father, Troy, told KTVX.

The family's fear was heightened because of their health history; Annette is a cervical cancer survivor and Troy, a Desert Storm veteran, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma after Chrissy was born.

"I broke down. It's a struggle every day worrying about my family, about my husband and now my baby girl," Annette said.

But 8-year-old Chrissy is brave.

"I was scared the first time that I knew about it," Chrissy said. "But I knew that I could fight it off, and I hope that I can fight it off.”

Treatment will begin with a mastectomy at Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. Doctors there are confident that Chrissy will be OK.

"It is very treatable," Dr. Brian Bucher said. Bucher said the surgery will “remove all the remaining breast tissue to prevent this cancer from coming back."

“(We're) doing everything we can to smile every day and laugh every day and carry our head high and do our best to overcome this," Annette said.

A GoFundMe page has been established to help the family.