Interferon Combination treatments for return active virus

Dear Terri:
I appreciated your questions and I certainly appreciate your concern about your mother who has hepatitis C and who has cirrhosis on biopsy.  I want to be as helpful as possible, but this is one of those circumstances where if you can give me a little more information, I can probably give you quite a bit more information.  First and foremost, it should be relatively simple for you or your mother to find out what drug is being used in her study in combination with interferon.  In addition, if she is now finished the trial and is off drug, you or she should also be able to find out if she received interferon with either the placebo or the experimental drug.  
These bits of information are really critical.  I would not want to recommend a treatment to you or your mother just to find out if she had already received it.  On the other hand, if she was in a trial using interferon and ribavirin and she received the placebo (interferon alone), she might be a very good candidate for combination therapy using interferon with ribavirin.  Patients who relapse after interferon alone, do exceptionally well with this combination.  If on the other hand, she has failed interferon with ribavirin, she will have to consider other options.
To answer your final question, I do not know anything specific about “Bio-Pro Thymic Protein A”.  I do know some work is being done with a drug called Thymosin, which was originally derived from human thyroid extracts.  I know some centers are looking at this for hepatitis C though I do not know if they have had encouraging results.  I know that the University of Cincinnati was one of the centers using this compound and you might contact them (Gastroenterology Division) if you have additional interest.  
I hope this information is helpful to you. If you have additional questions or concerns, I invite you to contact us at Henry Ford.  Our direct phone number is  (313) 916-8865.   I would also encourage you to visit us at Henry Ford.  We have an active group of liver specialists and we have enormous interest in and experience with hepatitis C.  
This response is being provided for general informational purposes only and should not be considered medical advice or consultation.  Always check with your personal physician when you have a question pertaining to your health.