Rubraca is a prescription medicine used to treat people with advanced ovarian cancer who: have certain âBRCAâ gene mutations, either inherited (germline) or acquired (somatic), and. have received previous treatment with 2 or more prior chemotherapy medicines for their cancer.
Consider statins a lifelong commitment. You may think that once your cholesterol goes down, you can stop taking medication. But if your cholesterol levels have decreased after you take a statin, you'll likely need to stay on it indefinitely.If you stop taking it, your cholesterol levels will probably go back up.are but potentially serious side effects. 1  Muscle problems. 2  Statins may cause muscle pain and tenderness, particularly if you're taking a high dosage. 3  In severe cases, muscle cells can break down (rhabdomyolysis) and release a protein called myoglobin into the bloodstream.
But up to 29 percent of the people who start taking statins report muscle pain and many discontinue statins because of it. Many of these people do well when they are switched to a different variety of statin. Very rarely, statins can cause life-threatening muscle damage called rhabdomyolysis (rab-doe-my-OL-ih-sis). Rhabdomyolysis can cause severe muscle pain, liver damage, kidney failure and death. The risk of very serious side effects is extremely low, and calculated in a few cases per million of patients taking statins.