February 26, 2021February 24, 2021
A Farewell Note to My Beloved Readers
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
So, the time has come. Here I am, three years after I sat down for the first time to write ... Read more
February 15, 2021February 11, 2021
A Light-giver Shares a Lesson in Emotional Honesty
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
Have you ever noticed how the people with the most light to give are often those who have endured the ... Read more
February 1, 2021January 27, 2021
Embarking on a New Chapter While Cherishing the Value of Community
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
It’s surreal to ponder that our world has been living through a pandemic for a year now. That we’ve endured ... Read more
December 14, 2020December 9, 2020
Shedding My Sickness While Acknowledging Its Eternal Impact
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
Just before the world changed overnight in March, I wrote a column titled “The Paradox of Healing.” In it, I ... Read more
November 16, 2020November 12, 2020
Sometimes Everything Works Out All Right
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
The other day, I chanced upon a poem called “Sometimes” that stopped me in my tracks and penetrated right through ... Read more
September 28, 2020September 24, 2020
Let’s Not Forget the Superheroes
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
Lately, in the midst of all the insanity going on in the world and the ensuing, albeit dispiriting, headlines covering ... Read more
September 14, 2020September 10, 2020
Frozen Toes and Sleepless Nights: The Reality of Being a Cancer Survivor
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
For the past week, I have been living in what I can only describe as a state of unrelenting exhaustion. ... Read more
August 31, 2020August 27, 2020
Can a Break From Routine Induce Healing?
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
This is a question I found myself pondering the other week as I locked up my little flat and escaped ... Read more
August 17, 2020August 13, 2020
Reflections on My ‘Re-birthday’ and the Past Year of Recovery
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
By the time this column is published, the one-year anniversary of my lifesaving stem cell transplant will have come and ... Read more
July 27, 2020July 23, 2020
This Year Has Taught Me Gratitude
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
This week I’ve felt completely at a loss over what to write about. It happens sometimes. Usually there’s something on ... Read more
July 13, 2020July 9, 2020
Total Happiness Is Unobtainable, and That’s OK
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
I recently came to the realization that none of us will ever be totally happy. Upbeat way to start a ... Read more
June 29, 2020June 25, 2020
As I Befriend My Fear of Relapse, Fear Loses Its Power
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
Being a cancer survivor is a complicated thing. It’s a lot of conflicting experiences at once. It’s walking down the ... Read more

June 13, 2019June 20, 2019

FDA Gives OK to Polivy plus Rituxan-Bendamustine Combo to Treat Advanced DLBCL

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved — with conditions — Genentech‘s Polivy (polatuzumab vedotin-piiq), used in combination with Rituxan (rituximab) and bendamustine (a chemotherapy), to treat adults with relapsed or ... Read more

June 11, 2019

Tyvyt Effective, Safe in Previously Treated Patients with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Phase 2 Trial Shows

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Treatment with Tyvyt (sintilimab injection) was found safe and eased the tumor burden or led to cancer disappearance in nearly 3 out of 10 patients with relapsed or refractory classical ... Read more

June 7, 2019

Triple Therapy Combo Effective in Treating DLBCL Subtype, Data Suggest

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People with the non-germinal center subtype of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (non-GCB DLBCL) respond well to initial treatment with Rituxan (rituximab), Imbruvica (ibrutinib), and Revlimid (lenalidomide) — so well that ... Read more

June 6, 2019

Adcetris Combo Continues to Show Better Results Than Chemotherapy Alone, Phase 3 Update Reveals

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Seattle Genetics‘ Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) in combination with standard chemotherapy continues to show better clinical activity than bleomycin plus standard chemotherapy, as a front-line treatment for patients with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, updated ... Read more

June 4, 2019

Cancer Vaccine Shows Potential against iNHL in Early Results

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A new cancer vaccine still in clinical testing showed potential for driving disease remission in patients with advanced indolent non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (iNHL) and may help restore efficacy of immunotherapies, including ... Read more

June 3, 2019May 23, 2019

The Existential Clarity that Comes with Traveling with Cancer

Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman

“Hi there … I’m loving your travel pics. I really wish I was able to travel while going through treatment! How do you do it?” The little red notification glared ... Read more

May 28, 2019July 1, 2019

Preclinical Study Uncovers Resistance Mechanisms to Lymphoma Therapy and Potential Way to Overcome Them

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Lymphoma cells can become resistant to therapy as they acquire novel genetic mutations, but a new study has found that they can also become resistant as they reprogram which genes ... Read more

May 23, 2019

IBI301 (Biosimilar of Rituxan) Meets Primary Endpoints in 2 Clinical Trials in China for B-cell Lymphomas

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IBI301, a biosimilar of Rituxan (rituximab), behaves similarly in the body and has a similar efficacy as the original product in patients with B-cell cancers, according to results from two ... Read more

May 21, 2019

FDA Won’t Ban Sales of Breast Implants Linked to Lymphoma, But Considers Black Box Warning

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In announcing that breast implants linked to anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (ALCL) can continue to be sold in the United States, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed assurances that the ... Read more

May 17, 2019

FDA Approves Venclexta-Gazyva Combo for Untreated CLL/SLL Patients

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the double combination therapy of Venclexta (venetoclax) and Gazyva (obinutuzumab) for the treatment of adults with newly diagnosed chronic lymphocytic leukemia ... Read more

May 14, 2019

Health Canada Approves Adcetris-Chemo for Advanced Classical Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

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Health Canada has approved Seattle Genetics‘ submission requesting approval of Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) in combination with standard chemotherapy as a frontline treatment for patients with advanced (stage IV) classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma. ... Read more

May 10, 2019May 8, 2019

Famous Lymphoma Survivors Can Be Models for Hope

Columns, Things That Give Me Hope - a Column by Bob McEachern

I don’t like to think about death, much less write about it. Over 11 years as a follicular lymphoma patient, I’ve gotten pretty good at not thinking about it. But ... Read more

A Farewell Note to My Beloved Readers

A Light-giver Shares a Lesson in Emotional Honesty

Embarking on a New Chapter While Cherishing the Value of Community

Shedding My Sickness While Acknowledging Its Eternal Impact

Sometimes Everything Works Out All Right

Let’s Not Forget the Superheroes

Frozen Toes and Sleepless Nights: The Reality of Being a Cancer Survivor

Can a Break From Routine Induce Healing?

Reflections on My ‘Re-birthday’ and the Past Year of Recovery

This Year Has Taught Me Gratitude

Total Happiness Is Unobtainable, and That’s OK

As I Befriend My Fear of Relapse, Fear Loses Its Power