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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