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Benben00,
You are right to be cautious. Please read the following comments from Lei, a good friend of hbvers in America:
你谨慎是对. 请阅读雷,一个在美国hbvers好朋友, 以下意见:
Hi everyone,
There were a few of these studies came out of the same hospital in China at
this year's AASLD, including one oral session on the last day. There are
several red flags because these reported response rates are so much higher
than all previously published data. I was hoping that in closer inspection
the data would hold up, I wish I can support some optimism here, but I'm
sorry to say the information presented were just not up to par. At the oral
presentation researchers in the audience were shaking their heads in
disbelief, because the studies were all over the place with no supporting
evidence. Specifically:
1. The presenters did not provide patient demographics (age, race, gender),
or any inclusion /exclusion criteria -- for all we know these might be
adults recently infected, not chronic infection from birth.
2. The researchers claimed that the 2-year interferon treatment plus a oral
pill were well tolerated, without presenting any side-effects data. Kind of
hard to believe, especially given the concern Michelle raised about
neuropathy seen in a previous study and the well know side effects of just
one year of interferon. There were also apparently no drop outs, which
really should give one pause.
3. In addition to the 30% HBsAg seroconversion rate, they are also
reporting
96% and 100% virological response, and 70% HBeAg seroconversion rates. This
is totally unheard of, not even remotely close. Numerous studies using
these
exact same treatments have not shown adding an oral drug to interferon does
any good, nor has any study using a longer treatment duration been shown to
improve efficacy. Since these study are not using any new treatment
strategy, and they are done in people with genotype B and C, a group
traditionally with response rates in the mid 10% range, These results are
highly if not totally impossible. Since these studies all came out of the
same hospital, I suspect we are seeing some sort of lab error or patient
selection process.
So, I would say at this point these researchers will need to submit their
data to a peer review medical journal with all supporting data and undergo
a
rigorous review, before these results, however promising, can be accepted.
Lei
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