Kate - its_not_kates_time

[Lovely]

I've always felt that Kate thinks of herself as being somehow 'above' cancer – as though someone like her should not get cancer, and especially not lung cancer. She's the epitome of the middle-class, clean-eating type and there's always a kind of annoyance in her tone when she's talking about cancer or any aspect of conventional treatment.

She's living in a total state of denial and there must be a hell of a lot of cognitive dissonance involved in both undergoing entirely conventional treatment while simultaneously convincing herself that sticking stuff up her bum and drinking fancy tea is what's keeping her alive. It's so offensive because she's clearly had a very positive response to the immunotherapy and if she'd been diagnosed even a few years earlier, she'd be long dead by now.

One thing in particular that I think really shows the kind of person Kate is is that she befriended Jemma McGowan (JemHow) and encouraged her to go to Hope 4 Cancer multiple times – Gemma often spoke of Kate and the hours they spent talking on the phone. After Gemma died (H4C didn't work for her – what a surprise!), Kate did not say a single word about her and has never spoken of her again.

 

[KrittyKat]

I think that the level of attention she gets - from her followers/likes/comments - and the effect that has on her ego/dopamine hits cannot be underestimated and has a huge role to play in Kate’s grift.

great video below “Dirty tricks used by fake cancer cure promoters”

 

[EveryDaysASoulDay]

Do you reckon it’s a money thing? Like do you
Think she knows it’s the Alectinib and is doing all the rest for trips to Mexico? If that’s the case and she’s opting to go away and leave her daughter for weeks at a time when in all likelihood doesn’t have long to live… well I’d love to believe people like that just don’t exist.

To be honest, all I’m certain of is that she is a narcissist who thinks she’s smarter than literally everybody else, including doctors. My gut is telling me that she is riding the natural therapy train for attention and money though, to what degree I’m not sure.

I vacillate between multiple possible scenarios with her. 1.) her being a complete psycho con artist like Belle Gibson and Scamanda & not even sick -to- 2.) she does have the cancer she says she has yet knows she’s being kept alive by western medicine -to- 3.) her prognosis was never as serious as she claimed and she is exaggerating and milking the situation. In terms of her possibly just being really deluded and 100% convinced that the coffee enema/space martian helmet theatrics are what is keeping her alive, I don’t think she would be bothering with the Alectinib at all if that were the case. Wherever the truth lies I find it heinous that she is leading folks down this path of really cruel false hope and convincing them to spend their family’s financial security on that fucker in Mexico, especially when she’s never had to spend a penny of her own money for the treatment there. She a real parasite in my eyes.

 

[Lovely]

Wherever the truth lies I find it heinous that she is leading folks down this path of really cruel false hope and convincing them to spend their family’s financial security on that parasite fucker in Mexico.

Yes, especially since she didn't risk her own financial security – or at least not nearly to the extent she originally claimed. She made a big deal about how she cashed in her pension/savings to pay for Hope 4 Cancer when she got her initial diagnosis, but much later she let slip that she had also used that money for her business/shops and to buy a beach-front investment property.

She rents that property out for a lot of money, in addition to the home she owns. She then did a GoFundMe that raised tens of thousands of dollars when the cancer spread and she did the more recent Mexico trips. Although she was asking for such a ridiculous amount that I'm pretty sure she didn't even meet her target! That's the thing with Kate – she's such a grifter, but she always ends up telling on herself.

 

[EveryDaysASoulDay]

I think that the level of attention she gets - from her followers/likes/comments - and the effect that has on her ego/dopamine hits cannot be underestimated and has a huge role to play in Kate’s grift.

great video below “Dirty tricks used by fake cancer cure promoters”

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

 

[FingerMouse]

To be honest, all I’m certain of is that she is a narcissist who thinks she’s smarter than literally everybody else, including doctors. My gut is telling me that she is riding the natural therapy train for attention and money though, to what degree I’m not sure.

I vacillate between multiple possible scenarios with her. 1.) her being a complete psycho con artist like Belle Gibson and Scamanda & not even sick -to- 2.) she does have the cancer she says she has yet knows she’s being kept alive by western medicine -to- 3.) her prognosis was never as serious as she claimed and she is exaggerating and milking the situation. In terms of her possibly just being really deluded and 100% convinced that the coffee enema/space martian helmet theatrics are what is keeping her alive, I don’t think she would be bothering with the Alectinib at all if that were the case. Wherever the truth lies I find it heinous that she is leading folks down this path of really cruel false hope and convincing them to spend their family’s financial security on that fucker in Mexico, especially when she’s never had to spend a penny of her own money for the treatment there. She a real parasite in my eyes.

To point three - she always uses the line about being given six months to live and then credits all the hard work she's done to beat that, making out how special she is etc. I've always thought that the Drs probably said that without any treatment (i.e the Alectinib) she may not survive beyond six months but she leaves out that detail as it's not quite such a strong story to shill with.

 

[KrittyKat]

I know other people have already gone down the Kate M rabbit hole, but I’m pretty new to looking a little closer at her story (might be a resulting of binge watching Apple Cider Vinegar and listening to (and now watching Scamanda). Something about her story just doesn’t sit quite right for me

- the shifting time line of, at her initial diagnosis, how long she was told she would live (shifts from 4 to 18 months)

- I came across this (see first two screen shots) from crfpevents IG page from August 2023 where she lists all her cancers from her original diagnosis and then says that she had ten rounds of radiation and targeted therapy (alectinib) because she has a gene mutation. I don’t recall her ever mentioning her radiation therapy?

- I hate to say it, but for someone who was diagnosed with terminal cancer and multiple tumours throughout her body, she looks very, very healthy. Cancer eats you up from the inside out. You look and feel like tit.

- according to social blade, she’s deleted posts from her IG. That’s a red flag for me that she’s trying to cover her tracks.

- there’s been no further mention of her book (was there meant to be a movie too??) despite getting an advance on it. Did too much of her story not line up and the publisher got cold feet??

The timeline of her initial diagnosis and trip to H4C is
- 1st Oct 2018 diagnosis
- she has 10 rounds of radiation plus is put on targeted therapy
- heads off to Mexico on 25th October for three weeks
- 14th Nov has results of tests and scans performed at H4C that, allegedly, show that most of her tumours have disappeared or reduced in size ( it’s interesting that here she uses the word “suspected” eg “I had 7 suspected cancerous lymph nodes”)
-19th Nov - arrives back in Australia where she starts on her regime of at home Iv s etc

 

[loveinfluenzas]

I know other people have already gone down the Kate M rabbit hole, but I’m pretty new to looking a little closer at her story (might be a resulting of binge watching Apple Cider Vinegar and listening to (and now watching Scamanda). Something about her story just doesn’t sit quite right for me

- the shifting time line of, at her initial diagnosis, how long she was told she would live (shifts from 4 to 18 months)

- I came across this (see first two screen shots) from crfpevents IG page from August 2023 where she lists all her cancers from her original diagnosis and then says that she had ten rounds of radiation and targeted therapy (alectinib) because she has a gene mutation. I don’t recall her ever mentioning her radiation therapy?

- I hate to say it, but for someone who was diagnosed with terminal cancer and multiple tumours throughout her body, she looks very, very healthy. Cancer eats you up from the inside out. You look and feel like tit.

- according to social blade, she’s deleted posts from her IG. That’s a red flag for me that she’s trying to cover her tracks.

- there’s been no further mention of her book (was there meant to be a movie too??) despite getting an advance on it. Did too much of her story not line up and the publisher got cold feet??

The timeline of her initial diagnosis and trip to H4C is
- 1st Oct 2018 diagnosis
- she has 10 rounds of radiation plus is put on targeted therapy
- heads off to Mexico on 25th October for three weeks
- 14th Nov has results of tests and scans performed at H4C that, allegedly, show that most of her tumours have disappeared or reduced in size ( it’s interesting that here she uses the word “suspected” eg “I had 7 suspected cancerous lymph nodes”)
-19th Nov - arrives back in Australia where she starts on her regime of at home Iv s etc

Wow that's an impressive deep dive, good work! Kate's story really doesn't add up at all, so much grifting, and she absolutely looks way too healthy for someone with stage 4 lung cancer that had apparently spread everywhere so recently. Then for it to be gone just like that. I've just started watching Apple Cider Vinegar and it's so insightful, gives me more reason to think Kate is lying entirely about the cancer diagnosis.

 

[EveryDaysASoulDay]

In addition to the medical and timeline inconsistencies in her story, one of the things that was a red flag to me was that on at least two of her trips to Mexico she was bleeping around with a man that she met there and posted pictures of the two of them canoodling to her grid. Now ... seriously … what single mum do you know who has just found out that she has terminal cancer, has left her young daughter in another country to desperately seek out life-saving treatment in Mexico, is just casually hooking up with random men she meets and is posting photographs of the two of them partying on the beach with margaritas in hand and cute little suggestive captions? Like she’s at a naughty hen’s weekend away?

 

[EveryDaysASoulDay]

I know other people have already gone down the Kate M rabbit hole, but I’m pretty new to looking a little closer at her story (might be a resulting of binge watching Apple Cider Vinegar and listening to (and now watching Scamanda). Something about her story just doesn’t sit quite right for me

- the shifting time line of, at her initial diagnosis, how long she was told she would live (shifts from 4 to 18 months)

- I came across this (see first two screen shots) from crfpevents IG page from August 2023 where she lists all her cancers from her original diagnosis and then says that she had ten rounds of radiation and targeted therapy (alectinib) because she has a gene mutation. I don’t recall her ever mentioning her radiation therapy?

- I hate to say it, but for someone who was diagnosed with terminal cancer and multiple tumours throughout her body, she looks very, very healthy. Cancer eats you up from the inside out. You look and feel like tit.

- according to social blade, she’s deleted posts from her IG. That’s a red flag for me that she’s trying to cover her tracks.

- there’s been no further mention of her book (was there meant to be a movie too??) despite getting an advance on it. Did too much of her story not line up and the publisher got cold feet??

The timeline of her initial diagnosis and trip to H4C is
- 1st Oct 2018 diagnosis
- she has 10 rounds of radiation plus is put on targeted therapy
- heads off to Mexico on 25th October for three weeks
- 14th Nov has results of tests and scans performed at H4C that, allegedly, show that most of her tumours have disappeared or reduced in size ( it’s interesting that here she uses the word “suspected” eg “I had 7 suspected cancerous lymph nodes”)
-19th Nov - arrives back in Australia where she starts on her regime of at home Iv s etc

Hold on… I’ve just caught this part … She only had 10 days of radiation??
I had six weeks of daily radiation for breast cancer. Does anyone know, is 10 days plus targeted therapy the standard protocol for the extent of cancer she is claiming she had? Because that doesn’t seem very long at all. I’ve never heard of anybody only ever having 10 days of radiation.

 

[KrittyKat]

I checked with my favourite medical expert (Chat GPT) and this is what they had to say generally about Kates diagnosis, treatment and prognosis

"The claim that Hope4Cancer in Mexico was responsible for this person’s survival and NED (no evidence of disease) is highly unlikely. ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is known to respond exceptionally well to targeted therapies like alectinib, which can control the disease for several years before resistance develops. It is far more plausible that this individual was on effective ALK-targeted therapy, which explains their survival well beyond the original six-month prognosis. The fact that their cancer recurred in 2023 with multiple brain metastases aligns with the known progression of ALK+ NSCLC when resistance to first-line treatments occurs.

Hope4Cancer offers unproven, alternative treatments that lack clinical evidence for curing or significantly impacting stage 4 lung cancer. Their reported tumor shrinkage and NED periods are far more likely due to ongoing targeted therapy, natural tumor fluctuations, or misinterpretation of scans, rather than anything provided by the clinic. If they continued to survive beyond 2023, it is most likely because they switched to a second-line ALK inhibitor (like lorlatinib) and/or received radiation therapy for brain metastases. If Hope4Cancer had truly discovered a repeatable cure for stage 4 lung cancer, it would be a medical breakthrough and front page news —not an anecdotal marketing claim'

Estimated Life Expectancy for an ALK+ Stage 4 NSCLC Patient (2018-2024)

Treatment Plan	Typical Survival	Notes
No treatment	6 months - 1 year	Original prognosis.
Crizotinib (1st-gen ALK inhibitor)	~2-3 years	Older, less effective ALK inhibitor.
Alectinib (2nd-gen ALK inhibitor)	~5 years	With excellent response, up to 6+ years.
Alectinib → Lorlatinib (or newer ALK inhibitors)	7-10 years	Best-case scenario with multiple targeted therapies.
Alectinib + Radiation + Lorlatinib + Clinical Trials	10+ years (rare)	Exceptional cases.

Conclusion

• Surviving 5+ years with ALK+ NSCLC is feasible, especially if they were on alectinib for most of that time.
• However, the claim that Hope4Cancer cured them twice is highly unlikely—their survival is far more plausibly explained by effective ALK-targeted therapy.
• If they were still alive in 2024-2025, it would suggest they either:
  Switched to lorlatinib or another ALK inhibitor,
  Had radiation for brain metastases, or
  Possibly enrolled in clinical trials for new ALK therapies.

 

[KrittyKat]

Hold on… I’ve just caught this part … She only had 10 days of radiation??
I had six weeks of daily radiation for breast cancer. Does anyone know, is 10 days plus targeted therapy the standard protocol for the extent of cancer she is claiming she had? Because that doesn’t seem very long at all. I’ve never heard of anybody only ever having 10 days of radiation.

My local expert, Chat GPT's, response


The standard radiation treatment protocol for stage 4 ALK-positive NSCLC depends on the goal of therapy and the location of metastases. In general, 10 sessions over 10 days (often referred to as 10 fractions) is a palliative radiation schedule, not a curative one. Here’s how radiation is typically used in this setting:

1. Standard Radiation Therapy Protocols for Stage 4 NSCLC
A. Palliative Radiation (Common in Stage 4)

• 10 sessions over 10 days is a common palliative radiation regimenused to:
  • Shrink large tumors causing symptoms (e.g., lung tumors blocking airways).
  • Reduce pain from bone metastases.
  • Alleviate brain metastasis symptoms (if whole-brain radiation is used).
• Alternative palliative schedules: Sometimes 5 fractions over 1-2 weeks is used for symptom relief.

B. Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) or Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS)

• For limited (oligometastatic) disease, SBRT (for body tumors) or SRS (for brain mets) can be used.
• These are typically 1-5 high-dose sessions, depending on tumor location and size.
• SBRT is sometimes used aggressively in ALK+ NSCLC patients with limited metastases to prolong survival.

C. Whole-Brain Radiation Therapy (WBRT)

• If multiple brain metastases are present, WBRT is often given in 10-15 sessions over 2-3 weeks.
• Newer alternatives (like hippocampal-sparing WBRT + ALK inhibitors) can be used to reduce cognitive side effects.

2. Would 10 Sessions Be Standard for an Initial Diagnosis of Stage 4 ALK+ NSCLC?

• If the goal was palliation, then 10 sessions could be a standard regimen (e.g., treating pain or airway obstruction).
• If they had oligometastatic disease, they might receive stereotactic radiation (1-5 sessions per site) instead.
• If brain metastases were present, 10-15 sessions of WBRT would be standard.

3. Would Radiation Be the Primary Treatment?

• No. In ALK-positive NSCLC, systemic targeted therapy (like alectinib) is the primary treatment.
• Radiation is typically used in addition to targeted therapy, either for symptom relief or to treat specific areas of progression.

Final Verdict

• 10 sessions over 10 days is a typical palliative radiation schedule, not a curative one.
• If this person was treated with radiation alone, survival beyond 5 years would be extremely unlikely.
• Their survival is far more likely due to ALK-targeted therapy (e.g., alectinib) rather than radiation or Hope4Cancer treatments.

Curative Radiation Schedules for Lung Cancer
For stage 4 ALK-positive NSCLC, radiation is not considered curative, but if a patient had earlier-stage disease (stage 1-3) or oligometastatic stage 4 ( Oligometastatic stage 4 cancer is a subset of stage 4 cancer where the disease has spread beyond the primary tumor site but only to a limited number of locations. It is considered an intermediate state between localized and widely metastatic cancer, and in some cases, it may be treated with curative intent. ) a curative radiation schedule could be used in the following ways:
1. Curative Radiation for Localized (Stage 1-3) NSCLC
If a lung cancer patient is not a candidate for surgery (e.g., due to poor lung function), they might receive definitive radiation therapy, often with chemotherapy.

• Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) (Stage 1-2, Small Tumors)
  • 3-5 sessions (fractions) over 1-2 weeks
  • Very high-dose, precise targeting of a lung tumor.
  • Used instead of surgery for small, early-stage lung cancers.
  • Example regimen: 54-60 Gy in 3-5 fractions.
• Conventional (Definitive) Radiation (Stage 2-3, Larger Tumors)
  • 30-35 sessions over 6-7 weeks
  • Given daily (Monday-Friday) over 6-7 weeks.
  • Often combined with chemotherapy (chemoradiation).
  • Example regimen: 60-66 Gy in 30-33 fractions.

2. Curative Intent Radiation for Oligometastatic Stage 4 ALK+ NSCLC
Some stage 4 ALK+ NSCLC patients with only a few metastases (oligometastatic disease) may undergo aggressive local therapy, including curative-intent radiation, if systemic therapy controls the disease.

• SBRT to Oligometastases
  • 1-5 high-dose sessions per metastasis.
  • Used for isolated lung, bone, adrenal, or liver metastases.
  • Example regimen: 30-50 Gy in 1-5 fractions.
• SRS (Stereotactic Radiosurgery) for Brain Metastases
  • 1-5 sessions with precise high-dose radiation.
  • Preferred over whole-brain radiation for patients on ALK inhibitors.
  • Example regimen: 20-24 Gy in 1 fraction per tumor.

3. Could a Stage 4 Patient Receive a “Curative” Radiation Schedule?

• Not typically, unless they had limited metastases and a strong response to ALK inhibitors.
• Some patients with ALK+ NSCLC and oligometastatic disease receive SBRT to residual tumors after years of targeted therapy, aiming for long-term remission.
• However, radiation alone would not be enough for a durable response in widespread stage 4 disease.

Final Verdict
A curative radiation schedule would be:

• 30-35 sessions over 6-7 weeks for stage 1-3 NSCLC.
• 3-5 sessions (SBRT) for small, early-stage tumors.
• 1-5 sessions (SBRT or SRS) for oligometastases in carefully selected stage 4 cases.

For the person in question, 10 sessions over 10 days does not suggest a curative approach, but rather palliative intent—supporting the conclusion that their survival was far more likely due to ALK-targeted therapy (like alectinib) rather than Hope4Cancer or radiation alone.

 

[KrittyKat]

Yes, especially since she didn't risk her own financial security – or at least not nearly to the extent she originally claimed. She made a big deal about how she cashed in her pension/savings to pay for Hope 4 Cancer when she got her initial diagnosis, but much later she let slip that she had also used that money for her business/shops and to buy a beach-front investment property.

She rents that property out for a lot of money, in addition to the home she owns. She then did a GoFundMe that raised tens of thousands of dollars when the cancer spread and she did the more recent Mexico trips. Although she was asking for such a ridiculous amount that I'm pretty sure she didn't even meet her target! That's the thing with Kate – she's such a grifter, but she always ends up telling on herself.

Re : her accessing her super to pay for treatment. It was less than 3 weeks after her initial diagnosis that she made her first IG post about flying to Mexico for treatment; and a week later ( so 3 1/2 weeks after her initial diagnosis) she arrives in Mexico. That seems like a pretty quick turn around for the super company to pay out her funds?

Re; the investment property; is that our villa maison in Hastings Point? She put it on the market in July last year and it sold for $770k in August 2024 (she bought it for $445k in Dec 2019)

 

[kiwigal258]

I work in a health service with a population diagnosed with a specific disease with a terminal, often rapid, prognosis and one of the hardest things to watch is the people who leave their (often young) families to travel for periods of time to have alternative, unproven, usually jaw-droppingly expensive “treatment”. We talk about it amongst staff as people “seeking hope” and if, whatever time and money and energy they spend on it, gives them some hope and helps them to live their days better, who are we to deny that? It still makes me want to weep and beg them to just spend their precious remaining time with their kids… and I feel the same about Kate.
Not acknowledging the alectinib, however, is beyond reproach!

Someone we knew had a terrible terminal cancer diagnosis and went overseas to a quack clinic, spent a fortune and ended up just getting even sicker, and came back to NZ and died. Missed out on time with her family. Just awful. These clinics are pure fraud.

 

[emmygluewho]

Some of you Tattlers are bloody awesome with your info! Thank You!

 

[ellobird]

In addition to the medical and timeline inconsistencies in her story, one of the things that was a red flag to me was that on at least two of her trips to Mexico she was bleeping around with a man that she met there and posted pictures of the two of them canoodling to her grid. Now ... seriously … what single mum do you know who has just found out that she has terminal cancer, has left her young daughter in another country to desperately seek out life-saving treatment in Mexico, is just casually hooking up with random men she meets and is posting photographs of the two of them partying on the beach with margaritas in hand and cute little suggestive captions? Like she’s at a naughty hen’s weekend away?

Oh I forgot about the not hot American she was messing around with. She seems to find time for margaritas and partying each time she’s there, funny I wouldn’t have thought that went well with cryotherapy or whatever other BS she’s receiving there.

 

[Elpis]

I followed a woman who had Stage 4 colon cancer and not long before she died, she threw a hail mary pass and, of course, when to one of the Hope4Cancer centers in Mexico - the one in Tijuana. She suffered through the juicing and coffee enemas in her final weeks and of course, spent $50,000 or whatever that her husband and two small daughters could surely used. She was an Emmy-nominated hair stylist. Went to the Mexican clinic in August - died the following January. There's a German clinic as well. Kate's encouraging many more of these sad stories.

 

[Lovely]

Re : her accessing her super to pay for treatment. It was less than 3 weeks after her initial diagnosis that she made her first IG post about flying to Mexico for treatment; and a week later ( so 3 1/2 weeks after her initial diagnosis) she arrives in Mexico. That seems like a pretty quick turn around for the super company to pay out her funds?

Re; the investment property; is that our villa maison in Hastings Point? She put it on the market in July last year and it sold for $770k in August 2024 (she bought it for $445k in Dec 2019)

Good sleuthing re the villa! I didn't realise she'd sold it, but that's quite a return on her investment.

I don't know enough about how the Australian system works to know how long it would take to pay out savings, etc. I know in the UK these things can be accelerated if you have confirmation of a terminal diagnosis, so I wouldn't be surprised if Australia had something similar.

However, I'm also quite sure that she mentioned how H4C let her pay a certain amount up front and then pay off the rest of what she owed later, so that might be relevant. She was trying to make them look all kind and benevolent when they're total sharks – of course they just wanted to get her to Mexico asap knowing she'd have a substantial amount of money coming soon.

 

[notgifted]

I haven’t looked for ages, but nothings changed, people who had been to that cancer clinic for “hope” are dead, it’s a giveaway when you trawl through posts and they suddenly stop, clearly they’ve passed on.
I briefly saw a post about Jules Coffey’s business partners husband had cancer, he’s died in theast few days and I’m certain he had been to this clinic too, they have small kids, the wife has cancer too, so i absolutely see the desperation to live, but at such high costs it’s sad to see.

 

[Everyoneisasking]

I am late to this party but I saw Kate mentioned in another thread and her story sounded familiar. I heard her on a podcast recently but I can’t for the life of me think of which one it was. I remember being really empathetic to her story at first then I ended up being really sceptical by the end. I was disappointed that there was no questioning of her condition and the “cure”.

I’ll go back and read from page 1 now.