Treatment has limited success: Side effects are severe, the cost high.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: November 14, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Mike McGraw

KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ For many years the only treatments for hepatitis C worked so poorly that demand exploded when medications finally improved.

But even the newest treatments don't work much of the time. At best, a little over half the patients carefully selected for clinical trials respond to them _ and the rate may be much lower in the general population.

In addition, side effects can still be so severe that some patients stop treatment or never begin.

Steve Bradford finished the new treatments last year, but the virus rebounded.

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