Three drug cocktail: Boceprevir + Peg-interferon + Ribavirin (or) Telaprevir + Peg-interferon + Ribavirin has shown promising results in treatment of Hepatitis C patients.
"66% of previously untreated patients treated with the three-drug regimen of boceprevir, peginterferon, and ribavirin cleared the virus for good, compared to 38% of patients treated with peginterferon and ribavirin alone."
In other study in NEJM, 75% of patients treated for "44 weeks achieved sustained viral clearances, compared to 29% of patients who got a second round of peg-interferon and Ribavirin." The results were "similar to those seen in phase III trials of telaprevir."
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