The Lock Out Cancer campaign will start on May 1 for the Windsor Cancer Centre Foundation and one of their ambassadors doesn’t hold back on the reality of her fight with cancer.
“There’s a stigma out there that only older people can get it,” says Tawnya Jacob, who is just 28 years old.
In March 2020 she was diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer.
“We caught it early,” she says. After her husband noticed a strange lump on her right breast.
After 16 rounds of chemo over 22 weeks at the Windsor Cancer Centre, Jacob then underwent a double mastectomy in September 2020.
“I’ll be honest. I was very terrified to have that part of me taken away,” says Jacob.