ABC and Giant Cell Tumor

[EweSheep]

http://www.bonetumor.org/tumors/pages/page151.html

My 5 year old DD has this on her pinky finger and it was shocking! She just had surgery yesterday and she has done well so far. However the biopsies has not come back yet. We are worried a little bit and wondered if this is going to be a long term "disease". No where it said it is cancer. She has the hairline fracture to it when she was playing duck, duck, goose game, got up and run to chase, tripped and fell against the wall, breaking that finger. Boy did it swell! Went to the ER afterwards and the ER doc and a bone specialist had no idea what they were dealing with. So off to Springfield with the referral and the plastic/bone surgeon said it was ABC with possibility of Giant Cell Tumor.

I know my DD is taller than average of 4 foot 1 and half inches tall of the age of five years and weighs 72 lbs.

What we know, she is maturity earlier as one of the nurses pulled me aside and told me to contact my ped. for DD because "down under" is showing.

Now that is something alarming because girls do not mature so early! I know I was early, at the age of nine while hubby was 12 years old when he had his first facial hairs. So could this be genetics?

Or is it enivornmental? I do not know if this ABC and early puberty is related to one another. There is not a whole lot of facts out there.

Anyone dealing with this or know of someone that is? How did it come out? Would she go thru a lifetime surgery?

 

[dntd]

Poor kid, I hope this gets sorted out soon. Talk to your dr about the early puberty, 8 is too early even talked to the Dr as I was wondering about when her form of muscular dystropy and puberty/teen years he stated at 8 they would be worried though I know of many girls that get thier first cycle around that age.

 

[dntd]

I forgot to add that checking out pub md is a good way to see what the recent newa for the medical communites, My DD's Dr is a top dr in his field and told me to look there: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez

 

[PotterWatch]

I know nothing about ABC, but I do know a couple girls who started showing signs of puberty very early in life. One was 6, the other was 7. I believe they were both put on hormone treatments of some kind to slow it down. I hope your doctor is able to help!

 

[EweSheep]

I would not mind if dd has to go thru injections to slow her growth down and reach puberty later.

For that bone tumor and her reaching puberty so early, it makes me wonder if they are related alot together. Scary isn't it? It seems like it is getting to kids younger and younger and the doctors were not able to give us a definate answer to the reasons or cause of this ABC bone tumors.

Looks like we might end up giving dd some blood samples to the lab for definate DX of what exactly her body is going thru.

I was on YAZ birth control when I was breastfeeding dd but only up to six months of age she weaned herself. Possibly?????

Oh that link did not work for me...will try again later.

 

[gritsar]

So sorry y'all are having to deal with this.

 

[redhen]

 

[babylady4]

Could you possibly be eating a lot of phytoestrogens, or products containing them? Soy is one of the major sources of phytoestrogens. If consumption is high enough it can induce early onset of puberty.

 

[BlackBart]

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I've heard of that allot lately, especially young girls living in a family that are Vegetarians.