A lot of people have considered stopping therapy for that reason.

Do not donate blood while taking this drug and for at least 3 years after stopping therapy.

In order to stop therapy after the initially planned number of cycles, certain response criteria, depending on treatment group, must be met.

Q. When is it time to stop therapy?

Some patients or their families refuse to stop therapy for a fatal disease, even when it is obviously not helping.

A sustained response means that the patient remains free of hepatitis C virus 6 months after stopping therapy.

Be sure to continue to take medicines as instructed by your doctor, because stopping therapy will often bring symptoms back.

In an interview, he said that "we are not trying to immunize them to the point where we could completely stop therapy."

Smokers and nonsmokers were just as likely to stop therapy because of side effects.

The aim is to give infected people long breaks in treatment but not with the goal of completely stopping therapy.