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= Edith Kate Dawson = Edith Kate Dawson, MBE MA MD DSc FRCSEd FRCPEd, (1886-1983) was a British pathologist focused on the study of breast pathology, with special interest in fibrosis and adenosis.

Biography
Dawson was born in India to a military family and taught in a missionary school in Rangoon, Burma, before travelling to Edinburgh via the Trans-Siberian Railway to study medicine. Graduating in 1921, she became a pathologist and from 1931 worked as a cancer research fellow at Edinburgh University. Her 1936 dissertation, 'Studies in the Normal and Pathological Histology of Mammary Tissues' was noted to be of 'outstanding significance'. Throughout her career, she focused on the study of breast pathology, with special interest in fibrosis and adenosis.

From 1961, she worked in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. She performed the diagnostic histology for Fellows and undertook research on the material in the museum. She donated a mass of histological material to the College, including whole sections of breast and other organs, some of which have been mounted for demonstration purposes. She received a DSc for a thesis on sarcoma in 1970 (aged 84) and an MBE in 1968.

She was married to James Walker Dawson, a pathologist remembered for his work on multiple sclerosis including the description of the eponymous Dawson's fingers.