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.
Switch to another statin drug. It's possible, although unlikely, that one particular statin may cause side effects for you while another statin won't. It's thought that simvastatin (Zocor) may be more likely to cause muscle pain as a side effect than other statins when it's taken at high doses. Change your dose. Lowering your dose may reduce some of your side effects, but it may also reduce some of the cholesterol-lowering benefits your medication has.