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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent

Ian Paterson pitched cleavage-sparing mastectomy ‘like sales job’, inquest told

Ian Paterson
The cleavage-sparing mastectomies jailed breast surgeon Ian Paterson performed were not a recognised or authorised type of operation. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

The convicted breast surgeon Ian Paterson pitched one of his patients an unauthorised cleavage-sparing mastectomy “almost like a sales job”, an inquest has heard.

Chloe Nikitas, an environmental consultant from Tamworth, died in 2008 at the age of 43 from breast cancer that returned three years after having a mastectomy she believed had removed all of her breast tissue.

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