VRTX: Also, folks need to understand that testing viral load during treatment is inconclusive (one would expect VR during treatment, yet perhaps not SVR); hence the reason of testing 6 months after conclusion of treatment (gold standard of "cure") plus usually again after 18 months post-treatment.
If there is not a definite VR of magnitude after, say, 4 weeks of treatment, most GI Specialists will opt to discontinue, sparing the patient the debilitating side-effects for a probable treatment failure.
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