MARCH 4, 2022

Flexible Sigmoidoscopy Is Diagnostic For Immunotherapy-Related Colitis

Las Vegas—Flexible sigmoidoscopy may be sufficient for confirming colitis due to checkpoint inhibitor therapy, according to a single-center experience.

Colonoscopy generally is regarded as the current gold standard for evaluating immunotherapy-related colitis (IMC), but as yet there are no guidelines for diagnosis, according to Sadie De Silva, MD, a resident at the UHS Southern California Medical Education Consortium, in Temecula.

Case reports and series suggest that flexible sigmoidoscopy