B.C. woman waits for court to decide 'the truth' after losing breast to mistaken cancer diagnosis

When Elena Ivanova found a lump in her right breast after a skiing accident in early 2016, she wasn’t too concerned. Years previously, after breast-feeding her two daughters, she’d noticed a similar mass but it turned out to be nothing.

Ivanova wanted to be sure, though, so she went to see her family doctor. A mammogram and a biopsy followed, before a shocking appointment with a surgeon who told Ivanova she had a rare, aggressive cancer known as a metaplastic carcinoma.

“I couldn’t believe it. Time stopped for me,” the 61-year-old dog groomer from North Vancouver, B.C., said.

Just nine days later, on March 24, 2016, Ivanova underwent a total mastectomy, and braced herself

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