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.
Statins are drugs used to lower cholesterol. Your body needs some cholesterol to work properly. But if you have too much in your blood, it can stick to the walls of your arteries and narrow or even block them. If diet and exercise don't reduce your cholesterol levels, you may need to take medicine. Often, this medicine is a statin. Statins interfere with the production of cholesterol in your liver. They lower bad cholesterol levels and raise good cholesterol levels. This can slow the formation of plaques in your arteries.