At a time when little girls are dabbling in lip gloss, fashion and the beginnings of becoming a young lady Taylor Thompson of Little Rock, Arkansas, was thrust into adulthood by shocking news that she had breast cancer. According to CNN, the family has no history of breast cancer. Though, theoretically, once breast tissue is in the body, it can become cancer, Dr. Jennifer Litton, an assistant professor in the department of breast medical oncology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston told CNN. The disease has recently been discovered to have been diagnosed earlier than the previous generations, and Litton says it could be something hormonal or environmental that's causing women to have it earlier. Obesity and, in turn earlier periods, can also be factors. Taylor, however, is not overweight, nor got her period early.

Taylor had aggressive and rare tumor, called a phyllodes tumor, which has a 98 percent chance of returning. Though she had surgery to remove the cancer in July, she continues to check in at the hospital every six months to make sure it has not returned.