What if you came to the hospital to fight cancer and found yourself fighting something altogether different?
Because of weakened immune systems, cancer patients are at high risk for developing a disorder called sepsis. And because many people have never heard of this disorder before, they don't recognize the symptoms early enough to get help. That's why, worldwide, sepsis causes more deaths each year than prostate cancer...
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