Boceprevir for previously treated chronic hepatitis C virus genotype I infection

Abstract

This paper reports the important results of the RESPOND-2 trial and is accompanied in the same issue by the report of the SPRINT-2 trial investigating the use of boceprevir for untreated chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1 infection. The RESPOND-2 trial recruited 403 patients who had either no response to interferon previously or had no circulating virus at the end of treatment but then relapsed within the first 24 weeks of stopping therapy. © 2011 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.