Hello, Welcome to HCM, Medical literature shows that antiviral medicines are used to treat long-term (chronic) hepatitis C. These medicines can help prevent the hepatitis C virus from damaging your liver. Sometimes treatment doesn t permanently lower the amount of virus in your blood. But some studies have shown that treatment may still reduce scarring in your liver, which can lower your chances of developing cirrhosis and liver cancer. Further medicines to treat hepatitis C don t work for everyone. Chronic hepatitis C infection is cured or controlled in about half of the people who are treated with a combination of peginterferon and ribavirin. I suggest you discuss this with a gastroenterologist (specialist in liver diseases) and then your doctor will decide what is good for you depending on further testing. Thank you.