NEUPOGEN (Filgrastim) generic is a prescription medicine used to treat your body to make more white blood cells. White blood cells are important to help you fight infections. Filgrastim is given to people whose ability to make white blood cells is reduced (for example, by chemotherapy, chronic neutropenia, or exposure to large amounts of radiation). Filgrastim is also used in some medical treatments (for example, bone marrow/stem cell transplants). NEUPOGEN is manufactured by AMGEN Pharma Ltd. in the USA.

FILGRASTIM is to be taken by injection under the skin or into a vein as directed by your doctor. For use during chemotherapy.
The most common side effects of FILGRASTIM include:

Numbness or pain in the bones and muscles.

The above information is obtained from the Internet. Please consult your doctor for medical advice.

INDICATIONS AND USAGE
Patients with cancer receiving myelosuppressive chemotherapy
Patients with acute myeloid leukemia receiving induction or consolidation chemotherapy
Patients with cancer undergoing bone marrow transplantation
Patients undergoing autologous peripheral blood progenitor cell collection and therapy
Patients with severe chronic neutropenia
Patients exposed to acute myelosuppressive doses of radiation (hematopoietic syndrome
acute radiation sickness)