Breast cancer patient's one request before surgery: 'Let's dance'

Dancing in the operating room. Picture / Twitter

An inspiring video of a dancing breast cancer patient is taking off online.

Before she underwent a double-mastectomy operation in Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco, Deborah Cohen had one last request.

That was a dance-off with her surgical team to blaring Beyonce hit Get Me Bodied.

Video of their scrub-clad moves has made it to social media and it's attracted thousands of shares and likes on Twitter.

Overseas media say Ms Cohen is a mother of two, who laughed and smiled throughout her six minutes of fun.