What will happen after interferon treatment due to hepatitis c?
That’s a very open question. During treatment you must show a response to the treatment, otherwise you join the ranks of the non-responders. This leaves you waiting for the release of another treatment, or at least another drug mixed with the current treatment that will give you a better chance of getting “clear” (no HCV found in blood). While you are waiting the HCV doesn’t, so you have to hope your liver isn’t trashed by the time something else comes out. If the treatment works and you “clear” the HCV you have to go in for retesting to be sure it doesn’t return. They have found that although blood may be clean of HCV there is often still active HCV in the liver. If it returns you would probably have to retreat with infergen (a combination interferon that is stronger) because you will have already shown that interferon works for your HCV. If it doesn’t return you will still be looking at retesting at intervals just to be sure it doesn’t come back and have anywhere from 6 months to 2+
