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Telaprevir: a new hope in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C?
Advances in therapy - 1 Aug 2010
Fowell Andrew J, Nash Kathryn L
Abstract excerpt
More than 180 million people worldwide have chronic hepatitis C (CHC) virus infection, a major cause of liver cirrhosis and its life-threatening complications including liver failure, portal hypertension, and hepatocellular carcinoma. With the current standard of care of pegylated interferon-alpha and ribavirin (PEG-IFN-alpha/RBV), the chances of sustained viral clearance or "cure" are only 40%-50% for genotype 1...
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