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Should Chronic HCV Patients Wait for Promising Therapies?
In the June/July issue of AGA Perspectives, our point/counterpoint pieces discuss whether patients with hepatitis C virus should be treated now or wait for promising new drugs.
Donald Jensen, MD, and Archita Desai, MD, say that waiting for future therapies risks missing a window of opportunity for successful viral eradication with currently available therapy. In a counterpoint to their article, Gregory Everson, MD, states, “Unlike Beckett’s Godot, the new DAAs are truly coming, and soon. I would suggest that the patient who can wait, and is willing to wait, should consider waiting.”
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