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Loop... the line that jumped out at me was

"Due to several limitations, we assessed the quality of the evidence in this review as very low quality."

"It just goes to show that there is always something!"

Roseanne Rosannadanna

But seriously, if DAA drugs are eradicating the HCV from the bloodstream, it follows that HCV would re-appear in screenings if it weren't Also eradicated in tissue/bone/CNS etc. 

There are no test results showing evidence of HCV in specimens taken from elsewhere in the subjects either. It sounds a lot like someone in the Health Insurance Underwriting business making a case to not cover treatment....the entity who commissioned the study is often a clue as to what they want the findings to be.

Hi Lisa!!

I hope you are doing well. Nice to hear from some one from way back when. @Tig you know I was on the treatment with Incivek. It was brutal but in May I had my regular blood test from my primary and requested alt/ast. They came back ast 13 alt 9. It was worth it.

Hi Lisa,

Good to hear from you! Hope things are going well. 

That report was a bit hard to follow. It referenced a lot of possibilities and assumptions, but didn't really come to any conclusions, other than SVR came more often. The one thing I've come to realize is that regardless of the treatment, it's almost always a new treatment, the  various DAA's. We all were somewhat of a guinea pig at some stage in the R&D program. They're already working on new compounds and releasing newer DAA's as we speak. I don't know how it ever slows down. There is less and less tweaking of existing strategies and new drugs instead. It's a race for the gold medal.

Overall I think these treatments are far easier than those during the Interferon days. People should enter the name INCIVEK into the search function and read some of those stories. Those patients have my never ending respect. Brutal... Still we have to strive for better and better options and treatments. They have to be easier to obtain and affordable. Nobody is saying give it away for free, just make it affordable. Free would be nice but that may take some time to come about globally! Global access to quality generics should be available without having to jump through hoops. There's a lot that can be done. I think the decision to treat is a good one. If we don't stop it, the damage progresses and in some, it progresses rapidly.