Chronic hep c grade 3 stage 3

[Rhondaakers]

My daughter works for my hep c dr. And they got my biopsy results back I'm chronic hep c geno type 1a grade 3 stage 3 should I be worried or am I a candidate for cute with new hep c drugs and if so I'm on Medicaid in Texas how hard is this medication to get approved

[SurfsideGal]

Hrsepwrguy gave you excellent and current advise.  I would just like to add that even cirrhotic patients (Stage 4) are being cured by the new treatments. Good luck to you.

[hrsepwrguy]

You are a prime candidate to treat, at stage 3 you are only one stage before cirrhosis, you really should treat before that happens.
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Metavir

The Metavir scoring system was specially designed to evaluate the liver in people with HCV.  The scoring consists of using a grading and a staging system. The grade gives an indication of the activity or amount of inflammation and the stage represents the amount of fibrosis or scarring.  
The grade is assigned a number based on the degree of inflammation, which is usually scored from 0-4 with 0 being no activity and 3 or 4 considered severe activity.  The amount of inflammation is important
because inflammation somewhat correlates with the development of fibrosis.

The fibrosis score is also assigned a number from
0-4:

0 = no scarring

1 = minimal scarring

2 = scarring has occurred and extends outside the
areas in the liver that contains blood vessels

3=bridging fibrosis is spreading and connecting
to other areas that contain fibrosis

4=cirrhosis or advanced scarring of the liver

http://hcvadvocate.org/hepatitis/factsheets_pdf/Biopsy.pdf

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Also harvoni (hcv drug for hcv geno 1) is covered in the Texas medicaid formulary

http://www.txvendordrug.com/formulary/drugs-lookup-results.asp?txtNDC=&DrugDescr=harvoni&txtDrugGN=&MKID=&Submit=Submit

Hope that helps

Have a great day