When Toronto resident Elysia Bryan found a lump in her right breast in the summer of 2020, she hoped it would disappear on its own.

At 34, Bryan was an active and healthy person, and did not immediately book an appointment to get screened for breast cancer.

"It was visible, so very hard to ignore. And it was painful. But I kind of thought if I ignored it, it would go away," Bryan said.

Bryan said she ignored the lump for months. Finally, in April 2021, she went to her family doctor, who said she needed a mammogram and a biopsy. Through that biopsy, she was diagnosed with breast cancer at St. Michael's Hospital and had a lumpectomy with two weeks.

Now, after undergoing eight rounds of chemotherapy, 24 sessions of radiation, a genetic test, mastectomy and reconstruction, she is cancer fr

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