Anti-vaccine campaigner dies after refusing chemo for cancer
A young Columbia University graduate, Paloma Shemirani, died after she refused to take treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of blood cancer, and instead took alternative practices influenced by her anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist mother. She suffered a fatal heart attack months after she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a type of blood cancer that begins in the lymph nodes.