Immunotherapy induced ulcerative colitis

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Hi. My husbands had he's immunotherapy permanently stopped due to it causing ulcerative colitis as anyone ever experienced this?

  • Hi

    Sorry to hear about your husband, my wife has never had immunotherapy so cannot relate to that except noting that this does appear to be a known potential side effect of that treatment, In our case my wife's first attempt at chemotherapy caused a lung to collapse and that treatment will not be repeated; however when they got that stable a second round of treatment managed to render her cancer stable.

    Does he know what might be happening next, including of course any treatment for the  ulcerative colitis?

    <<hugs>>

    Steve

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  • Hi he is on infliximab and steroids to try get the colitis under control but no plan going forward in regards to cancer treatment. X