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Thousands were harmed by vaginal mesh. Now could breast cancer patients be at risk too?
Jackie O'Carroll was 'a busy mum of three', working in HR at Rotherham Council, when she underwent surgery to treat urinary incontinence caused by childbirth.
'When I was out jumping around with the kids, I was a bit incontinent,' she recalls. 'Surgeons at my local hospital said I might have a prolapse and they had a gold-standard surgical treatment.
