A care assistant who had advanced disease when she was diagnosed with breast cancer underwent “inappropriate” surgery carried out by disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson, an inquest has heard.
Giving evidence from prison, where he is serving 20 years for wounding 10 patients, Paterson denied that an open breast biopsy and a double mastectomy that he performed on Rosemarie Blake before she died at the age of 56 on July 2 1997 were unnecessary.
