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

January 23, 2019

Genetic Profiling Identifies DLBCL Patients in Need of More Aggressive Treatment, Study Reports

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Investigators in the U.K. have found a way to identify diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients who are less likely to respond to standard therapies and may require more aggressive ... Read more

January 22, 2019

Childhood Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Survivors At Higher Risk for Cancer Later in Life, Study Shows

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Survivors of childhood Hodgkin’s lymphoma are 14 times more likely to develop a subsequent solid tumor than the general population, and this risk remains high for several decades post-diagnosis, a ... Read more

January 21, 2019

LOXO-305 Trial Begins for Lymphoma, Leukemia Patients Resistant to BTK Inhibitors

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A Phase 1/2 trial is evaluating Loxo Oncology‘s BTK inhibitor LOXO-305 in leukemia and lymphoma patients who failed, or were intolerant to, approved BTK inhibitors. The trial, so far being conducted ... Read more

January 18, 2019

Tyvyt, PD-1 Inhibitor Newly Approved in China, Showed Efficacy Similar to Opdivo and Keytruda, Trial Data Show

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The immune checkpoint inhibitor Tyvyt (sintilimab injection) reduced tumor burden in eight out of 10 people with relapsed or refractory classic Hodgkin’s lymphoma taking part in a Phase 2 clinical ... Read more

January 17, 2019

FDA Grants Breakthrough Therapy Designation to Zanubrutinib for Mantle Cell Lymphoma

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted breakthrough therapy designation to BeiGene’s zanubrutinib as a treatment candidate for adults with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) who have received at least ... Read more

January 15, 2019

Volcani Center to Request Patent Coverage for Cannabis-based CTCL Therapy

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Israel’s Volcani Center plans to submit new patent applications covering the use of a unique formulation of active compounds extracted from the cannabis plant as treatment for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL). Further ... Read more

January 14, 2019

Burkitt’s Lymphoma/Leukemia Patients Being Recruited for CPI-613 Phase 2 Trial

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Rafael Pharmaceuticals is currently enrolling patients with relapsed or refractory Burkitt’s lymphoma/leukemia in a Phase 2 trial to assess the potential of its lead candidate CPI-613. The study (NCT03793140) is ... Read more

January 11, 2019

Epizyme Planning to Request FDA’s Accelerated Approval of Tazemetostat for Follicular Lymphoma Patients

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Epizyme plans to ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for accelerated approval of tazemetostat as a treatment for people with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma with or without EZH2 activating mutations. ... Read more

January 11, 2019January 10, 2019

Happy ‘Diagnosiversary’ to Me

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

On Jan. 15, I celebrate my “diagnosiversary” marking 11 years since my follicular lymphoma (FL) diagnosis. This one is special. When diagnosed, I read that the median survival for FL patients ... Read more

January 10, 2019

Adcetris Not Cost-effective as Second-line Therapy for Some CTCL, U.K. Board Rules

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The United Kingdom’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) concluded that Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) is not a cost-effective option when given as a second-line therapy to people with ... Read more

January 9, 2019January 31, 2019

First-line Imbruvica-Gazyva Therapy Extends Survival Without Disease Progression in CLL/SLL Patients, Phase 3 Study Shows

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First-line treatment with Imbruvica (ibrutinib) plus Gazyva (obinutuzumab) significantly extends the time patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) live without cancer progression, and it also increases their ... Read more

January 8, 2019

Tyvyt Approved in China for Previously Treated Classical Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

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Tyvyt (sintilimab injection), an immune checkpoint inhibitor jointly developed by Innovent Biologics and Eli Lilly and Company in China, is now available as a therapy for patients with classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma who failed to respond ... 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