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What Happened to Paloma?

What happened to Paloma? Aged 22, Paloma Shemirani has her whole life ahead of her. She’s recently graduated, moved into a flat and found a job. But just days before Christmas in 2023 she receives bad news, she has cancer - an aggressive but treatable form of Lymphoma. Despite a good prognosis, Paloma decides - at least initially - to reject chemotherapy. The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½â€™s social media investigations correspondent Marianna Spring investigates what happened and what this tells us about the mainstreaming of anti-medicine ideas.

Host: Marianna Spring
Producer: Anna Harris
Story Editor: Matt Willis
Sound Engineer: Tony Churnside
Production Coordinator: Maria Ogundele
Editor: Sam Bonham
Commissioning producer: Nathan Jones
Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts

This was a ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ collaboration with Panorama.

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