Palifermin

Name: Palifermin Drug Interactions
Creator: Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD, BCPS

2 interactions

Also sold as: Kepivance Kepivance®

About Palifermin

Palifermin is used to prevent and to speed the healing of severe sores in the mouth and throat that may be caused by chemotherapy and radiation therapy used to treat cancers of the blood or bone marrow (soft fatty material in the middle of bones that makes blood cells). Palifermin may not be safe to use to prevent and… Read the full Palifermin drug information page →

Medically reviewed by Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD, BCPS · Updated Jun 30, 2026 · Editorial policy · Data sources

Sources: FDA prescribing information (Structured Product Labeling), the published literature cited in each entry, DDInter 2.0 (a major open-access drug-interaction database), and legacy DrugBank interaction data distributed by the NIH's RxNav service (decommissioned in 2024) — analyzed and reviewed by our pharmacist team. How we build this library →

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