article_snippet.sent: As a result, Elizabeth Dawes was wrongly told in July 2013 that Elizabeth Dawes had invasive grade three breast cancer following a biopsy.
article_snippet.sent: Doctors advised the 39-year-old that Elizabeth Dawes needed immediate surgery, suggesting a double mastectomy.
article_snippet.sent: Elizabeth Dawes refused, but did undergo major surgery to remove a 'cancerous' tumour from Elizabeth Dawes right breast as well as lymph nodes from Elizabeth Dawes armpit.
article_snippet.sent: Elizabeth Dawes, 39, was told Elizabeth Dawes had breast cancer in July 2013.
article_snippet.sent: Doctors at New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton Wolverhampton told Elizabeth Dawes Elizabeth Dawes needed immediate surgery and chemotherapy.
article_snippet.sent: The mother-of-one was also told Elizabeth Dawes would need a further procedure to correct 'deformities' to Elizabeth Dawes breasts caused by the operation.
article_snippet.sent: But four days later, Elizabeth Dawes was asked to attend an appointment with Elizabeth Dawes consultant.
article_snippet.sent: Elizabeth Dawes said: 'I am absolutely appalled at what I have been through and am still struggling to comprehend how this could even happen. '
article_snippet.sent: Elizabeth Dawes was so traumatised Elizabeth Dawes needed anti-depressants and was forced to give up Elizabeth Dawes job in the oncology department at New Cross Hospital.
article_snippet.sent: Ms Dawes, who has an 18-year-old son, is taking legal action.
article_snippet.sent: The mother-of-one, who was working as a breast cancer care nurse at the same hospital at the time, said: 'To be told you are facing aggressive cancer in your 30s is devastating and of course, I feared the worst and began making plans for my child, and getting my finances in order' Lawyer Louise Hawkley, of Irwin Mitchell, said: 'This is a truly shocking case that has left Elizabeth appalled at the unnecessary heartache, and extensive scarring Elizabeth has suffered as a result of being wrongly told that Elizabeth had breast cancer. '
article_snippet.sent: Elizabeth said aside from the 'obvious physical implications', the ordeal has had 'a devastating impact' on Elizabeth client's life.
article_snippet.sent: Ms Dawes had worked as a breast care nurse in the Oncology Department at New Cross Hospital but has since found Ms Dawes unable to continue in Ms Dawes role 'as a consequence of what Ms Dawes has been through'.
highlights_snippet.sent: Elizabeth Dawes was diagnosed with breast cancer in July 2013 .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Doctors advised a double mastectomy but Elizabeth Dawes refused, instead undergoing extensive surgery to remove a tumour and reconstruction afterwards .
  