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 8, 2020June 4, 2020

How to Embrace Pain and Let It Transform You

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

On my 23rd birthday, when I was in my final year of university and halfway through six months of chemotherapy, my father gave me the book “When Things Fall Apart” ... Read more

May 18, 2020May 14, 2020

My Quarantine Glow-up: Getting Fit After Cancer

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

A phrase has been making the rounds lately on social media called the “quarantine glow-up.” Maybe you’ve heard of it? It’s pretty self-explanatory, but for those unfamiliar with this popular ... Read more

May 18, 2020May 18, 2020

Adcetris Plus Chemo Now First-line Treatment of Adults with sALCL in Europe

News

The European Commission (EC) has approved Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) when used alongside chemotherapy as a first treatment for adults with systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma (sALCL), a type of peripheral T-cell ... Read more

May 11, 2020May 11, 2020

FDA Decision on Liso-cel, CAR T-cell Therapy for Large B-cell Lymphoma, Due in November

News

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended by three months its review of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s investigational CAR T-cell therapy, lisocabtagene maraleucel (liso-cel), as a treatment for adults with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma after at ... Read more

May 4, 2020May 4, 2020

Cirmtuzumab-Imbruvica Yields ‘Encouraging’ Response Rates Against Mantle Cell Lymphoma, Ongoing Trial Shows

News

Combination therapy with the investigational treatment cirmtuzumab plus Imbruvica (ibrutinib) led to “highly encouraging” response rates among patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), a type of B-cell cancer, according to the ... Read more

April 29, 2020April 29, 2020

Industry leaders seek to advance innovative resources for rare and orphan disease communities amid COVID-19 outbreak

Announcements

FFF Enterprises and BioNews announced today that both rare and orphan disease advocates are joining forces to provide patients with resources to help them connect as a community and continue ... Read more

April 27, 2020April 27, 2020

Surge in Telemedicine One ‘Good’ Outcome from COVID-19 Crisis, Doctors Say

News, syndicated

While there are few silver linings to the cloud created by COVID-19, the pandemic that has killed tens of thousands, hobbled economies worldwide and drove millions to quarantine in their ... Read more

April 27, 2020April 23, 2020

Despite the Struggle, I Have Found Solace in Solitude

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

I’ve entered my sixth week of quarantine, and you’ll be happy to know that I haven’t gone completely insane (yet). Then again, I wouldn’t know, as I don’t have anyone ... Read more

April 20, 2020April 20, 2020

1st Patient Treated in Phase 1 Trial of ATG-019 for Lymphoma, Solid Tumors

News

The first patient has been dosed in Antengene‘s Phase 1 clinical trial investigating the dual inhibitor ATG-019, alone or in combination with niacin extended release, for people with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma or ... Read more

April 13, 2020April 13, 2020

Keytruda Prolongs Life Without Disease Worsening in Classical Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Interim Data Confirm

News

Keytruda (pembrolizumab) significantly extends survival without disease worsening in adults with relapsed or refractory classical Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (cHL), compared to treatment with Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin), interim data from a Phase ... Read more

April 13, 2020April 9, 2020

Finding Beauty in the Brokenness

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

When trying to write this week’s column, I found myself coming up empty. To be honest, doing anything creative has been a struggle lately. “Mental molasses,” my friend Sarah described ... Read more

April 6, 2020April 6, 2020

ME-401 Put on FDA’s Fast Track for Previously Treated Follicular Lymphoma

News

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted fast track designation to MEI Pharma‘s investigational compound ME-401 for treating follicular lymphoma patients who received at least two prior therapies. A ... 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