This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study will evaluate the efficacy and safety of setrobuvir in patients with genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C. Treatment-naïve patients will be randomized to receive either setrobuvir (800 mg orally b.i.d loading dose followed by 200 mg orally .b.i.d.) or placebo in combination with standard of care Pegasys (peginterferon alfa-2a) and Copegus (ribavirin). Treatment duration will be 28 weeks or 48 weeks depending on response. Treatment-experienced patients categorized as relapsers, partial responders and viral breakthrough patients to previous pegylated interferon and ribavirin therapy will be randomized to receive either setrobuvir or placebo in combination with Pegasys and Copegus for 48 weeks. Treatment-experienced patients categorized as null-responders to previous pegylated interferon and ribavirin therapy will be assigned to treatment with setrobuvir plus Pegasys and Copegus for 48 weeks.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
283
180 mcg sc weekly
Orally b.i.d.
1000 mg or 1200 mg orally daily
Loading dose of 800 mg orally b.i.d on Day 1, followed by 200 mg orally b.i.d., 28 or 48 weeks
Proportion of patients achieving sustained virologic response (SVR24), defined as undetectable hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA at 24 weeks after discontinuation of all study drugs
Time frame: 24 weeks after discontinuation of all study drugs (treatment duration 28 or 48 weeks)
Proportion of patients achieving undetectable HCV RNA (defined as HCV RNA < 15 IU/mL) at each visit through Week 24
Time frame: 24 weeks
Proportion of treatment-naïve patients eligible to stop all treatment at Week 28
Time frame: 28 weeks
Safety: Incidence of adverse events
Time frame: up to approximately 72 weeks
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