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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 18.
Published in final edited form as: Gut. 2017 Sep 21;66(12):2043–2046. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2017-314744

Table 3.

Number of treatments required to achieve high cure rates with the strategy of sequential use of a first, second and third-line low cure rate (75% to 50%) therapies

cure rate Therapy Total


Number cured Initial Second Third %

75% cured 100 25 6 131
Number cured   75 19 4.5 98.5%
60% cured 100 40 16 156
Number cured   60 24 9.6 93.6%
50% cured 100 50 25 175
Number cured   50 25 12.5 87.5%