Drug reference
Reduction in duration of neutropenia and incidence of febrile neutropenia in cytotoxic chemotherapy for malignancy (except chronic myeloid leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndromes) ▶BY SUBCUTANEOUS INJECTION ▶Adult (specialist use only): 6 mg, for each chemotherapy cycle, given approximately 24 hours after chemotherapy, dose expressed as filgrastim
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Myelosuppressive chemotherapy
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▶Common or very common Chest pain. hypokalaemia. skin eruption
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There can be variation in the licensing of different medicines containing the same drug. Solution for injection ▶Lonquex (Teva UK Ltd) Filgrastim (as Lipegfilgrastim) 10 mg per 1 ml Lonquex 6mg/0.6ml solution for injection pre-filled syringes | 1 pre-filled disposable injection P £652.06 eiiii F 1089
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6 mg, for each chemotherapy
First-line fragment. Read the complete Indications and Dose section above.
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