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Mama June Opens Up About Daughter Anna 'Chickadee' Cardwell's 'Rare and Aggressive' Cancer Battle (Exclusive)

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Mama June Shannon’s sharing a health update on her oldest daughter, Anna «Chickadee» Cardwell, who is battling a rare and aggressive form of cancer.

It's a scary and heartbreaking ordeal, especially since it's fallen on Shannon to have the heart-wrenching conversations with Anna's two daughters about «the endgame.»Ahead of their premiere on Friday, Shannon and her husband, Justin Stroud, spoke with ET's Rachel Smith in New York City and shared that Anna's undergone a second round of chemotherapy to treat adrenal carcinoma.«It’s very rare and very aggressive,» Shannon says.According to the National Cancer Institute, adrenal carcinoma is a rare disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the outer layer of the adrenal gland.

It was announced back in March that Anna was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in January.Before the diagnosis, Shannon says the ordeal started in August when Anna went to the hospital with back pain.

Doctors soon found a cyst and removed it. But just a few months later, Shannon tells ET that Anna has «lost all her hair,» the result of a fast-moving cancer that spread to her liver, spleen and lungs by the time she was diagnosed.Anna's spirits, as one might imagine, are not high.«Just depends on what day it is,» Shannon says. «She sleeps a lot.

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