NorthWest Biotherapeutics Inc (NWBO)

[PacificNW]

Lets have a frank talk about sepsis. My father who did recently ( a few years ago) from colon cancer was given chemo (the very same chemo drug that put Martha Stewart behind bars)regularly and shortly after receiving said same oncologist prescribed courses intravenously he would have to be hospitalized repeatedly for sepsis. I would drive him to the ER and admit him each and every time, he would stay a few days to a week , be released and we would wait for his oncologist to prescribe the same chemo treatment again and it would start all over again. I can't tell you how many times he would be admitted with sepsis. Now we are talking a man in the upper 80's always surviving sepsis only to be given his chemo course thereafter and the process would repeat itself over and over again. It was explained to me that the chemo would decimate his immune system leaving him to the infectious disease. While his Oncologist wasn't happy with this reaction it didn't stop him from continuing this course of treatment to an 88 year old man. It continued for a few years until my dad passed away. What killed him wasn't sepsis, it was chemo-brain ( when the ravages of chemo shrink the brain and make one go insane), he went insane and was committed to the nutcase ward at our local hospital where they ended up withholding food and gave him morphine until he died of malnutrition because there was no place that could take him other than the county jail.
So I just don't know what all this concern with sepsis is other than it is the expected consequence of typical chemotherapy treatments with at minimum the elderly. And now you are going to say one possible case is going to dissuade patients from trying a non-chemo treatment.......bah humbug!/: