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

March 13, 2019

Gamida Cell’s Therapy Shows Promise for Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Multiple Myeloma

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Gamida Cell’s natural killer cell treatment is a promising approach to treat adults with relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma or multiple myeloma, according to early data from an ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial. ... Read more

March 12, 2019

Cell Medica Earns $8.7 Million Grant to Accelerate Off-the-shelf CAR-NKT Cell Therapy

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Aiming to support the development of CMD-502, a new cell-based therapy that uses donor-derived natural killer T-cells to fight cancer, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has awarded Cell Medica an $8.7 ... Read more

March 11, 2019March 8, 2019

Discovering the Power of Support

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

It’s a pretty well-known fact that having access to a support network is an essential tool for surviving any big life struggle. To have people to talk and relate to ... Read more

March 8, 2019March 8, 2019

Physician Stephen J. Forman Receives Top Honors for Research on Bone Marrow Transplantation

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Stephen J. Forman, MD, a physician and researcher in bone marrow transplantation and disorders such as lymphoma, is racking up some accolades. Forman will receive the 2019 DKMS Mechtild Harf ... Read more

March 8, 2019March 7, 2019

The Thing with Feathers: Holding On to Hope for a Cancer Cure

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

My daughter’s high school English class is reading a poem by Emily Dickinson. It begins with: “’Hope’ is the thing with feathers.” I read the poem in high school, too. ... Read more

March 7, 2019

$12.5M Grant to Help City of Hope Develop New Lymphoma Immunotherapies

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The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded a five-year $12.5 million grant to City of Hope that may help improve treatment by using a vaccine, develop an immunotherapy to shut ... Read more

March 5, 2019

PET Monitoring Can Be Used to Tailor Hodgkin’s Treatment, Trial Suggests

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Monitoring Hodgkin’s lymphoma patients with positron-emission tomography (PET) scans during chemotherapy can help identify those who respond early to a more intense chemotherapy regimen and switch them to a softer, ... Read more

March 1, 2019

FDA Grants Priority Review for Revlimid-Rituxan Combo for Some Lymphomas

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted priority review to Revlimid (lenalidomide) in combination with Rituxan (rituximab) for patients with previously treated follicular and marginal zone lymphoma. A decision ... Read more

February 28, 2019

First Patient Dosed in Trial of ADCT-402/Imbruvica Combo for Advanced DLBCL, MCL

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A Phase 1 trial testing the combination of ADCT-402 (loncastuximab tesirine) with Imbruvica (ibrutinib) for advanced diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) or mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) has dosed the first patient. Patient ... Read more

February 27, 2019

FDA Grants Priority Review to Polatuzumab Vedotin Combo for Difficult-to-treat DLBCL

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted priority review to Roche‘s polatuzumab vedotin in combination with Rituxan (rituximab) and the chemotherapy bendamustine for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory ... Read more

$Yescarta Approved in Canada for Adults with Relapsed or Refractory Large B-cell Lymphoma$

February 26, 2019

Yescarta Approved in Canada for Adults with Relapsed or Refractory Large B-cell Lymphoma

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Health Canada has approved Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel) as a treatment for adults with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) who have already received two or more lines of systemic therapy. Specifically, ... Read more

February 25, 2019

Exposure to Glyphosate in Herbicides Increases Risk of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Study Says

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Exposure to glyphosate, a common broad-spectrum herbicide used worldwide, increases the risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) by 41 percent in humans, a study says. The study, “Exposure to Glyphosate-Based Herbicides ... 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