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

February 7, 2019February 14, 2019

Stand Up To Cancer’s ‘Dream Team’ of Experts Working on New Therapies for T-cell Lymphoma

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Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) has put together an $8 million “dream team” of expert scientists who will focus on discovering new treatments for T-cell lymphoma based on CAR T-cell immunotherapy. ... Read more

February 6, 2019

BI-1206 Earns Orphan Drug Designation as Mantle Cell Lymphoma Treatment

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to BioInvent’s antibody BI-1206 for the treatment of mantle cell lymphoma. “This orphan designation for BI-1206 is very good news ... Read more

February 5, 2019

Round Table Pizza to Raise Funds for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society on National Pizza Day

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Round Table Pizza will be celebrating National Pizza Day Feb. 9 by giving back to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) for every purchased pizza. Participating Round Table Pizza locations will donate $1 ... Read more

February 4, 2019

2 Small RNA Molecules Suppress Lymphoma, Leukemia Development, Mouse Study Suggests

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Two small non-coding RNA molecules — miR-146a and miR-146b — appear to protect against the development of blood cancers such as B-cell lymphoma and acute myeloid leukemia, a mouse study suggests. These ... Read more

February 1, 2019February 1, 2019

Allogene’s Donor-derived CAR T-cell Therapy Cleared for Clinical Testing on Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

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Allogene Therapeutics and its partner Servier will soon launch a Phase 1/2 trial to assess the investigational cell therapy ALLO-501 in non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma patients who failed prior therapies, after the U.S. Food and Drug ... Read more

January 31, 2019

FDA Approves Imbruvica-Gazyva Combo for First-line Treatment of CLL/SLL

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a combination of Imbruvica (ibrutinib) and Gazyva (obinutuzumab) for the initial treatment of adults with chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL). This is the first ... Read more

January 30, 2019

Baseline and Interim PET Scans May Predict Long-Term Survival of PTCL Patients, Study Shows

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Higher tumor volume at baseline and worse responses to chemotherapy after four cycles — measured with positron emission tomography (PET) scans — can predict poorer overall and event-free survival among ... Read more

January 29, 2019

Gamida Cell, Be The Match BioTherapies Team Up on NiCord for Blood Cancers

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A collaboration between cellular and immune therapeutics firm Gamida Cell and Be The Match BioTherapies is designed to widen the use of bone marrow transplants to treat blood cancers. The partnership ... Read more

January 28, 2019

FDA Names Umbralisib ‘Breakthrough Therapy’ as Possible Treatment for Marginal Zone Lymphoma

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has designated umbralisib (TGR-1202), by TG Therapeutics, a breakthrough therapy as a possible treatment for adults with marginal zone lymphoma (MZL) who did not respond to at least one ... Read more

January 28, 2019January 24, 2019

Learning How to Own My Story

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

There’s this feeling I get sometimes when I wake up in the morning. For a moment, I forget about my shaved head, the picc line in my arm, and the ... Read more

January 25, 2019

2 Chemo Regimens Used Before Stem Cell Transplant Have Similar Effectiveness, Study Finds

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A chemotherapy regimen called modified busulfan-cyclophosphamide (mBuCy) — which consists of busulfan, cyclophosphamide, semustine, and cytarabine — is as effective as standard chemotherapy in preparing lymphoma patients for a stem cell ... Read more

January 24, 2019

Imbruvica-Opdivo Combination Shows Promise in Richter’s Transformation

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A combination of Imbruvica (ibrutinib) and Opdivo (nivolumab) reduced tumor burden in 65% of patients with Richter’s transformation — a kind of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) with very poor prognosis, derived ... 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