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

April 11, 2019

Phase 1 Trial of CA-4948 Recruiting Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Patients

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A Phase 1 clinical trial is recruiting relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma patients to determine the safest and most effective dose of the oral therapy CA-4948. The trial is now treating patients ... Read more

April 9, 2019

First CTCL Patients Enrolled in Phase 2 Trial of Topical Treatment WP1220

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The Phase 2 clinical trial assessing Moleculin Biotech‘s STAT3 inhibitor, WP1220, for the topical treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) lesions has enrolled the first two participants. The trial, to assess WP1220‘s safety and ... Read more

April 5, 2019

Three-tiered Combination Stimulates Immune System to Attack Lymphoma Cells, Phase 1/2 Trial Shows

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A combination of oral Imbruvica (ibrutinib), intratumoral CpG, and local low-dose radiation stimulates the immune system to safely and effectively attack lymphoma cells, according to a new study. The study, ... Read more

April 4, 2019

TG Therapeutics’ Umbralisib Proves Safe, Effective for Previously Treated Marginal Zone Lymphoma

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TG Therapeutics‘ umbralisib (TGR-1202), an inhibitor of the PI3K delta protein, has shown promising efficacy and safety in patients with relapsed or refractory marginal zone lymphoma, reducing cancer volume in more than half of ... Read more

April 2, 2019

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Silicon Valley Chapter Raises $297K in ‘Student of the Year’ Contest

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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Silicon Valley Student of the Year drive netted more than $297,000 to support the organization’s research and patient support efforts. Funds were raised through the ... Read more

March 29, 2019

UK’s NICE Recommends Adcetris as Second-line Treatment for Certain CTCL Patients

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After first rejecting it due to cost-effectiveness concerns, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has now recommended the use of Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) as a second-line therapy for patients with CD30-positive cutaneous T-cell ... Read more

March 28, 2019

Revlimid/Rituxan Combo Shows Promise in Follicular, Marginal Zone Lymphomas

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Patients with follicular lymphoma and marginal zone lymphoma who failed at least one prior therapy live significantly longer — more than two years — without their disease worsening when treated with a combination ... Read more

March 26, 2019

Trials to Test Abexinostat in Heavily Treated DLBCL, Follicular Lymphoma

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Xynomic Pharma is preparing two new Phase 2 trials in China to explore the activity of its investigational HDAC inhibitor, abexinostat, as third-line therapy for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) ... Read more

March 22, 2019March 22, 2019

Scotland Rejects NHS Access to Kymriah for Aggressive Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma

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Scotland’s healthcare system has rejected the use of Novartis‘ immunotherapy Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel) for adults with aggressive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) who failed at least two prior lines of therapy. The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) ... Read more

March 21, 2019

PD-L1 Levels, Response to Tecentriq Linked in Younger Cancer Patients

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Children, adolescents, and young adults with relapsed or refractory cancers — particularly those with lymphoma — have better responses to Genentech‘s immune checkpoint inhibitor Tecentriq (atezolizumab) if they have high ... Read more

March 19, 2019

CTCL Patients Who Continue Treatment Use Fewer Hospital Resources, Study Says

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Patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) who for some reason discontinue their systemic treatments require more monthly emergency room visits, hospital admissions, and longer inpatient stays than those who continue ... Read more

March 15, 2019

Phase 1/2 Trial of Tinostamustine to Treat Blood Cancers Opens 2nd Stage

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The expansion stage of a Phase 1/2 trial testing tinostamustine in relapsed or refractory types of lymphoma and other blood cancers has enrolled a first patient. The study (NCT02576496) is currently ... 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