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Anna "Chickadee" Cardwell is battling a "rare" and "aggressive" signifier of cancer, her ma June "Mama June" Shannon says successful a caller interview. Get an update connected her eldest daughter's wellness condition.
Honey Boo Boo Star "Chickadee" Diagnosed with Cancer
June "Mama June" Shannon has spoken retired astir her daughter Anna "Chickadee" Cardwell's crab diagnosis for the archetypal time.
In March, the 28-year-old, who starred with her household connected Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, confirmed connected Instagram that she has been diagnosed with signifier 4 adrenal carcinoma. In a caller interview, Mama June shared a wellness update about Anna—the eldest of her 4 daughters and ma to daughters Kaitlyn, 10, and Kylee, 7—saying she is astir to acquisition her 3rd circular of chemotherapy.
"The 2nd circular has been truly much unsmooth connected her," the prima of the upcoming docuseries Mama June: Family successful Crisis told Entertainment Tonight in a May 4 sit-down. "She mislaid each of her hair."
In an Instagram Live league successful March, Anna held up a bunch of fallen hair arsenic ample arsenic her look arsenic she discussed her crab battle, saying that chemotherapy makes her consciousness nauseous. In her interview, Mama June besides said her girl "sleeps a batch this round" and "doesn't privation to devour immoderate days."
The 43-year-old said Anna was diagnosed with stage 4 adrenal carcinoma this past February. "It's a uncommon cancer. It's precise aggressive," she said. "It's successful her lung, her liver, her kidneys and her spleen, each connected the near side."
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Mama June said she and other household members—including her daughters Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson, 17, Lauryn "Pumpkin" Efird, 23, and Jessica "Chubbs" Shannon, 26—have been supporting Anna amid her treatment, and besides spoke of the hard conversations they've had successful airy of her diagnosis.
"We cognize what could hap and her children cognize that, which is sad," she said. "Her 10-year-old knows much of it than her 7-year-old does."
Mama June besides spoke astir the affectional toll her daughter's unwellness has taken connected her personally. "There's days wherever I don't cognize whether to shriek oregon get huffy oregon get aggravated oregon beryllium happy. Some days you've got to enactment connected that [happy] look and say, 'Hey, how'ya doin'?'"
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