{"id":110967,"date":"2025-08-01T18:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/110967\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T18:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:49:11","slug":"paloma-shemirani-woman-who-died-of-cancer-had-five-coffee-enemas-a-day-instead-of-chemo-inquest-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/110967\/","title":{"rendered":"Paloma Shemirani: Woman who died of cancer had five coffee enemas a day instead of chemo, inquest told"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman who died from cancer after refusing chemotherapy to treat it was instead having five coffee enemas a day to beat the disease, an inquest into her death has been told.<\/p>\n

Paloma Shemirani, a 23-year-old Cambridge graduate, died after suffering a heart attack linked to her non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the Royal Sussex County Hospital on July 24 last year.<\/p>\n

The actions of Paloma\u2019s mother Kay \u2018Kate\u2019 Shemirani, a disgraced nurse and controversial health influencer, is under scrutiny, with Paloma\u2019s brothers alleging she was abusive to her children and involved in Paloma\u2019s \u201calternative treatment program\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Kate was struck off by the Nursing and Midwifery Council in 2021 after peddling COVID conspiracies that \u201cput the public at a significant risk of harm\u201d.<\/p>\n

At an inquest into Paloma\u2019s death her twin brother, Gabriel Shemirani, said he blamed his mother \u201centirely\u201d for his sister\u2019s death, saying she \u201cobstructed treatment\u201d, The Independent<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn short I believe that she sacrificed Paloma\u2019s life for her own principles, I believe that she should be held accountable for Paloma\u2019s death,\u201d he said in the Kent and Medways Coroners Court.<\/p>\n

He told the inquest Paloma was having \u201cfive coffee enemas a day\u201d under her mother\u2019s care as part of an unproven alternative cancer regimen known as Gerson therapy \u2014 one which her mother claimed to have used successfully herself when she had cancer in the past.<\/p>\n

Gerson therapy involves a strict diet and supplements and uses coffee enemas to \u201ccleanse toxins\u201d from the body.<\/p>\n

\"GabrielGabriel Shemirani. Credit: Gareth Fuller\/PA<\/p>\n

While Paloma was still alive, in April 2024, Gabriel brought a High Court case to assess his sister\u2018s ability to make medical decisions while living with her mother, he had also previously raised his concerns with social services.<\/p>\n

In written statements, Paloma had expressed fear of undergoing chemotherapy, worried it could affect her fertility and even questioned whether she even had cancer.<\/p>\n

With treatment, the five year survival rate for patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma is about 75 per cent.<\/p>\n

The inquest was told that Paloma had a complicated relationship with her mother and was estranged from her at the time she was first diagnosed.<\/p>\n

Gabriel alleged Paloma was considering chemotherapy to treat her cancer but her parents pressured her into rejecting it.<\/p>\n

In one message to Paloma, her father wrote, \u201cdon\u2019t consent to anything from the doctors they try and kill you\u201d. While her mother had said \u201cI\u2019m the only one that can help you, don\u2019t bite the hand that feeds\u201d.<\/p>\n

Kate and her ex-husband, Paloma\u2019s father Faramarz Shemirani, told the BBC<\/a> in June they had evidence \u201cPaloma died as a result of medical interventions given without confirmed diagnosis or lawful consent\u201d but that has not been substantiated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who died from cancer after refusing chemotherapy to treat it was instead having five coffee enemas…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":110968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[210,1194,67,132,68,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-110967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-society","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114955011053085901","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}