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Hannah’s mom and dad, Carrie and Jeffrey Auslam, originally thought what their daughter had complained about was “no big deal,” until doctors gave them the shocking diagnosis.
Doctors discovered cancer in Hannah’s primordial breast tissue -- the same tissue that would develop into a breast once a young girl reaches puberty.
“Am I going to die?” was the first thing Hannah wanted to know, reports ABC News. Suddenly she was thrust into a rotation of treatments and surgeries that most adults have difficulty coping with. Ultimately, Hannah underwent chemotherapy, tumor-removal, mastectomy and removal of the four cancerous lymph nodes under her arms.
Today, she is free of the disease and is a thriving sixth-grader who recently got to meet her idols -- the Jonas Brothers.
According to the National Institutes of Health, secretory carcinoma, the type of breast cancer Hannah had, represents less than .1 percent of all breast cancers and has been found in only a few hundred cases of young girls.
Breast cancer in this age group is extremely rare, but Hannah was one in a million. Hannah had some words of wisdom for other young girls who detect an abnormality in their bodies. “Tell your parents right away,” she told ABC News.




