A mother who found out she had breast cancer again after undergoing a “cleavage-sparing” mastectomy carried out by Ian Paterson was told she was just “exceptionally unlucky”, an inquest into her death has heard.
Chloe Nikitas, who was diagnosed with grade two invasive ductal carcinoma in 2002, would never have agreed to the procedure, carried out by disgraced surgeon Paterson at the Little Aston Hospital, if she had known it would have left breast tissue behind and risked her cancer returning, her partner of 18 years Klaus Strohle told an inquest in Birmingham on Tuesday.
