When is Boceprevir expected to be approved?

[susan400]

I've heard quite a bit on the boards about the Tele but not so much on when the Boce is supposed to be approved.  Has anybody heard anything on it?  I won't be treating w/the Tele again, but plan on treating w/Boce if I can find a way to pay for it. Let me know if you have heard anything.

Susan400

[susan400]

I am basically stage 2.  Two of my biopsies showed bridging, but the last biopsy didn't show any bridging.  So, I'm fortunate in that all of the treatments have kept everything under control pretty much.  I am just tired of having to deal with it, all of the monitoring of it, thinking about it, etc.  I just want to forget all about it and pretend that I don't even have it, you know?  

Susan400

[pcds]

These new meds will be our time for success.  There will be a large number of us, me included starting as soon as Telaprevir is released which is before the boce.  Hoping by this time next year we will be in the middle of tx with new PI.
pcds

[spectda]

glad to hear your damage is not to severe. I think you should wait for the right drug or drugs so you don't have to keep doing this. No one should treat for 10 times, that just sounds awful. I could never do it.
Be well,
Dave

[StormRider]

You are correct, should have read end of 2011 or early 2012. : )

[susan400]

That's part of the problem, no one is really sure what the right drug or drugs is for me at this point.  I just can't do Telaprevir again and my hepatologist is leery of me even trying to because of the severe early onset rash that I had with it and because I've already been exposed to it so I have less of a likelihood of viral clearance on the Tele.  So, I will wait it out for the Boce, however long that takes and hope that I have a way to pay for it at that time.  Susan400

[scratchinghead]

Found this webpage/website. It lists all the trails going on and what stage they are in.

http://www.hcvadvocate.org/hepatitis/hepC/HCVDrugs.html