S-P's boceprevir reduces SVR after 28 weeks in Ph II study

23 April 2009

US drug major Schering-Plough's boceprevir, its investigational oral hepatitis C protease inhibitor, significantly increased sustained  virologic response rates with 28 and 48 weeks of therapy when added to  the current standard of care, peginterferon and ribavirin for 48 weeks.

The results from this Phase II study in 595 treatment-naive patients  with chronic hepatitis C virus genotype 1 were presented at the annual  meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver in  Copenhagen, Denmark. Genotype 1 is the most common and hardest to treat  form of HCV.

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