Patients With History Of Cancer At Increased Risk For Acquiring And Dying From Sepsis

... Hospitalized patients with a history of cancer are at a ten-fold increased risk of acquiring and subsequently dying from sepsis -- a severe immune response to an infection -- compared to hospitalized patients without cancer. In addition, the risk for sepsis among male patients was found to be 30 percent greater than for female patients, while African Americans and other races had nearly twice the risk for sepsis of Caucasian patients. ...