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She's not old enough to wear a bra, but Aleisha Hunter battled and beat a woman's disease.

Last summer, the 4-year-old Toronto girl underwent surgery after she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Melanie Hunter discovered the lump in her daughter's breast when she was just 2-years-old. Doctors originally thought it was just a cyst, but when the lump continued to grow and become painful, further testing at the Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto revealed Aleisha had juvenile breast carcinoma last May.

Surgeons performed a radical mastectomy and also removed 16 lymph nodes under her arm.

"They cut my booby off," Aleisha told the Hamilton Spectator. "It was growing so big."

"It's gone. She's cured," her mother said.

Hunter did not have to undergo chemo therapy. She will have to learn more about breast cancer and her surgery as she gets older.

"She asked me the other day if her booby is going to come back. I said, 'No, when you're older the doctors will give you a new one,' " her mother told the Spectator.

Now that she's well, the 4-year-old is enjoying the attention that comes with being a child survivor of a grown-up disease.

Hunter is thought to be the youngest breast cancer survivor.