I undersøgelserne af monoterapi med MabThera reagerede 48% af de patienter, hvor tidligere behandling ikke virkede, og vedligeholdelsesundersøgelsen viste, at det varede 42, 2 måneder for patienter, som modtog MabThera, før de oplevede forværring af sygdommen, sammenlignet med 14, 3 måneder for patienter, som ikke modtog medicinen.
In the studies of MabThera monotherapy, 48% of the patients who had failed previous treatment responded to MabThera, and the maintenance study showed that it took 42.2 months for patients who received MabThera to experience a progression of their disease, compared with 14.3 months in patients who did not receive the medicine.