Mom Convinced Daughter with Cancer to Reject Chemotherapy, Family Claims. She Died 7 Months Later 

The sons of salient anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist Kate Shemirani person blamed nan erstwhile caregiver for nan decease of their sister, her girl Paloma, who died successful 2024 aft refusing chemotherapy for cancer.

In a Monday, June 23, question and reply pinch nan BBC news programme Panorama, Gabriel and Sebastian Shemirani said that while increasing up successful nan English municipality of Uckfield, their mother believed that nan Sept. 11 violent onslaught connected nan World Trade Center was an "inside job" and that nan Sandy Hook schoolhouse shooting was staged.

When their mother was diagnosed pinch bosom crab successful 2012, nan ordeal fortified her anti-science views, they said — and while Kate underwent room to region nan cancer, she credited her betterment to juices and java enemas. 

Although Gabriel and Sebastian stopped speaking pinch their mother aft their parents split, Paloma — Gabriel’s copy — remained successful interaction pinch her. As Sebastian told nan BBC, “Paloma's strategy was to appease, to beryllium sweet, to effort and triumph nan emotion that she hadn't been granted earlier.”

When Paloma was diagnosed pinch non-Hodgkin lymphoma successful precocious 2023, she was fixed a affirmative prognosis — 80% chance of endurance — pinch chemotherapy; without it, nan BBC reports, nan crab could beryllium fatal.

However, BBC reported that erstwhile Kate visited her girl successful nan hospital, Paloma decided against chemotherapy, opting to dainty her crab pinch Gerson therapy, which involves juices, supplements, and enemas, and is not an approved curen for cancer, nan National Cancer Institute notes. No studies person been done that support nan belief that it's an effective crab treatment, according to nan NCI.

Paloma's mother supervised her care, nan BBC reports; successful July 2024, she was put connected life support pursuing a bosom attack. A fewer days later, Paloma had died astatine 23 years old.

Kate responded to Paloma’s decease by proclaiming successful posts connected X that she had been murdered and that her decease had been covered up. “Medicine is simply a dishonesty and what we erstwhile believed to beryllium healthcare is now a homicide service,” she wrote, later calling her daughter’s decease “one large monolithic manslaughter case.”

Sebastian placed nan blasted for his sister's decease squarely connected his mother, and told nan BBC, “My sister has passed distant arsenic a nonstop consequence of my mum’s actions and beliefs. And I don’t want anyone other to spell done nan aforesaid symptom aliases nonaccomplishment that I have.”

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PEOPLE has reached retired to Kate for a comment.

An inquest — nan word for a ineligible investigation successful nan U.K. — into Paloma’s decease is scheduled for adjacent month.

Responding to an X personification who claimed nan BBC fabricated their claims astir Paloma's death, Kate wrote, “Let them each autumn connected their swords.  My soundlessness has been for a logic our soundlessness arsenic her parents has been for a reason. The documents do not dishonesty and erstwhile we fresh we will show nan world because it affects everyone what is being done.”