Afamelanotide mastery course
Unit 6 of 12
Long-term real-world evidence
Randomized trials test an effect over months; observational cohorts show what happens over years.
What years of registry data add to the trials
Randomized trials test an effect over months; observational cohorts show what happens over years. For EPP, several cohorts have followed afamelanotide patients well beyond the trial windows, and this unit summarizes what they found.
The recurring themes are quality-of-life gains, high continuation rates, and a contested hint of liver benefit, which one cohort reported and another did not find.