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The 31-year-old, who bowed out of Test cricket after England's Ashes win on Sunday, went under the knife on Monday.
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Vainikolo went under the knife at the Cromwell Hospital in London on Monday and will be out of action for at least seven months.
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By contrast, more than one in five of the men who went under the knife experienced a complication of the surgery, including one death.
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Fortune said Jobs had considered not even having surgery to remove his tumor, but eventually went under the knife, undergoing what is known as a Whipple procedure.
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Doctors at Charing Cross Hospital in London recommended gastric bypass surgery to Steven, as a result, and he went under the knife at the Imperial Weight Centre.
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Peacock picked up the injury against Castleford in August and went under the surgeon's knife in September, missing the Challenge Cup final, the play-offs and England's Four Nations trip down under.
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