Is cure of hepatitis C with medications possible? What defines a cure?

Is cure of hepatitis C with medications possible?
What defines a cure?

By Donald Jensen, MD
Hepatitis Expert

The term ‘cure’ is such a powerful word with such important implications that liver specialists and virologists avoided using it for decades to describe one outcome of hepatitis C therapy (WebMD). The hepatitis C virus is virus that needs to continue to replicate in the liver to survive. There is no ability of HCV to become dormant or go into a state of suspended animation. Therefore, if HCV is suppressed with treatment for a sufficient period of time, the virus cannot survive.

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