HEP C Therapy which is better

[toxy]

Hellow,
Could you please, kindly advise which therapy is better for treating Hep C virus, Pegasis and Kopegus or Pegintron and Rebetol???
Thanks a lot in advance

[toxy]

as far as you know so much abouth this disease and this treatement I would like to ask for one more advice
My husband has He C his viral load is 11 000 and his liver has fibrosis Stage 0, it means very slight fibrosis, as all these drugs are so very harmful, what would you advice shall we take the treatment at all, or maybe we will just take drugs that I good for liver and thus keep the liver in good shape and let alone the virus????

[toxy]

Bill1954 and  FlGuy,

Thanks a lot for your help I appreciate,
as you know so much

[FlGuy]

To make your evaluation a little less complicated here is something to keep in mind.  When it comes to pegylated interferon there are two kinds; Pegasys (alpha2A) and PegIntron (alpha 2B).  They are made by two difference manufacturers (Roche and Schering).  As for the Copegus, Rebetol, Ribabvirin; it's all the same and they are bio-equivalents of ribavirin and there is no difference. So, the only difference is the Peg (Pegasys and PegIntron) and those two have more similatities than differences.

[Bill1954]

Here is a webpage with many links to the IDEAL study; this was sponsored by Schering Plough Pharmaceuticals to evaluate the differences between the two drugs. Not an easy task, as the results show.

The official party line indicates there is very little difference between the two drugs in treatment outcomes, but there has been discussion about the study design that might be less than ideal :o).

http://tinyurl.com/mp4qez

Best to you—

Bill

[copyman]

not sure there is much of a difference but i have heard pegasys has less side effects.