This is what we are up against. I understand not wanting to do chemo, but this is way more than that. Then to do blame the doctors for what little intervention they were allowed to do....
Paloma Shemirani, 23, died at the Royal Sussex County Hospital last July, after a heart attack.
www.bbc.com
A woman who died after refusing treatment for cancer told a court she was "anti-vax", an inquest has heard.
Paloma Shemirani, who had declined chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma, suffered a fatal heart attack caused by her tumour at the Royal Sussex County Hospital (RSCH) on 24 July last year.
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Paloma, who grew up in Uckfield, East Sussex, denied even having non-Hodgkin lymphoma, calling it an "absurd fantasy, with no proof".
The Cambridge graduate described the diagnosis as "suspected and unconfirmed", adding that she had a "background in natural healing".
In addition, she feared that if she were to survive chemotherapy it might make her infertile.
"I do not want to undergo such a harsh treatment that could even kill me when there is a possibility this is not cancer", she said.
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Paloma had turned to Gerson therapy - a strict organic vegetarian diet involving enemas - on the advice of her mother's ex-fiancee, Dr Patrick Villers, though Cancer Research UK said there was no scientific evidence of it being an effective treatment.
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The 23-year-old's mother Kay (Kate) Shemirani, who shared Covid conspiracy theories on social media, has blamed doctors' interventions for her daughter's death.
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