Peg-Intron cuts injections to once a week and bumps the cure rate above 50%.
Both have substantially boosted the cure rate in big trials, raising excitement among hepatitis c specialists.
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But if you can discover it early, the cure rate is anywhere from 80% to 90%.
Initially the new meds will likely be added to interferon regimens in an attempt to boost the cure rate.
African-Americans, for instance, have a lower cure rate than do whites or Asians.
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Now new drugs that could be approved within a year could increase the cure rate to 70% for newly diagnosed patients.
Renal cell carcinoma accounts for approximately 2% of all cancers diagnosed in the UK, although it is difficult to treat, with a cure rate of about a third.
Because existing treatments have such a low cure rate and sometimes unbearable side effects, biotech and pharmaceutical companies have been racing to develop a new generation of better drugs.
Josh Sommer, the founder of the Chordoma Foundation, was diagnosed with chordoma, a rare cancer of the skull and spine with a 30% cure rate and no approved drugs.
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Some leukemias have a 75 percent cure rate.
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Based on these rates of growth, Norton argued that giving the same total dose of chemotherapy over a shorter period of time would boost the cure rate by limiting the time tumors could regrow between treatments.
Drug A offers a 95% cure rate.
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Drug B offers a 88% cure rate.
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In the heated race to develop new hepatitis C drugs that boost the cure rate, Wall Street thinks Vertex Pharmaceuticals has a slightly better drug than a rival entry from Merck, and thus will garner the large majority of sales.
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Wall Street is bracing for one of the biggest new drug categories in a decade: the launch of a series of antiviral medicines that could dramatically improve the cure rate for hepatitis C, a viral disease that slowly attacks the liver and is often fatal.
Although this medicine may have helped cure the problem, it was the emergency rate cuts by the U.S. Federal Reserve in the fall of 1998 that pumped enormous liquidity into the global system and dramatically reduced financial stress in Asia.
Something similar happened in Argentina after it adopted its convertibility plan: people started to believe that biting the bullet of a permanently fixed exchange rate was enough, on its own, to cure the economy's problems.
Would the Fed use a quick depression as a cure to devalue the over-priced durable goods by raising the interest rate as a catalyst to thwart off the irrational exuberance since the economy is doomed to the Self-induced Paralysis?
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Dr Robertson said more treatment would cure more people, who could go on to develop liver damage, and may slow the rate of the epidemic.
Breast cancer screening is in fact based on a radiation benefit ratio, not cost, but suppose that anaysis were to show that the screening should be different for black women, either earlier because of age as above, or avoided completely because of the lower rate of disease and higher radiation sensitivity in youger women making it more likely to kill than cure.
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