Glucagen and Lonsurf

• Generic Name: glucagon
• Dosage Forms: hypokit
• Other Brand Names: Glucagen, GlucaGen HypoKit, Glucagon Emergency Kit for Low Blood Sugar, Gvoke HypoPen, Gvoke PFS, Baqsimi

Glucagon injection is an emergency medicine used to treat severe hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) in diabetes patients treated with insulin who have passed out or cannot take some form of sugar by mouth.

Glucagon injection is also used as a diagnostic aid during X-ray tests of the stomach and bowels. This is to improve test results by relaxing the muscles of the stomach and bowels.

This medicine is available only with your doctor's prescription.

• Generic Name: tipiracil / trifluridine
• Dosage Forms: tablet, film coated
• Other Brand Names: Lonsurf

Lonsurf contains a combination of tipiracil and trifluridine. Tipiracil and trifluridine are anti-cancer medicines that interfer with the growth and spread of cancer cells in the body.

Lonsurf is used to treat colorectal cancer that has spread to other parts of the body (metastatic).

Lonsurf is also used to treat a type of stomach cancer called gastric cancer, including adenocarcinoma of the gastroesophageal junction, that has spread to other parts of the body (metastatic).

Lonsurf is usually given after other cancer medicines have been tried without success.