A young cancer patient who died after refusing chemotherapy in favor of five coffee enemas a day was “adversely influenced” by her conspiracy theorist mother, a UK coroner said Thursday .

Paloma Shemirani, who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2023, eschewed conventional treatment for the “alternative” healing path overseen by her mother, Kate Shemirani, a controversial health influencer.

“It seems that if Paloma had been supported and encouraged to accept her diagnosis and considered chemotherapy with an open mind she probably would have followed that course,” coroner Catherine Wood said at Thursday’s inquest hearing, according to news reports . 4

Paloma died at 23 in 2024 from a heart attack believed to have been caused by an untreated tumor.

Upon her diagnosis,

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