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

November 14, 2018

Verastem Advances Copiktra for Peripheral T-cell Lymphoma Under LLS Therapy Acceleration Program

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Aiming to accelerate the development of Copiktra (duvelisib) for treatment of peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) — an aggressive type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma — Verastem has announced a collaboration with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). ... Read more

November 13, 2018

Rituxan Shows Similar Benefit With or Without Chemo in Indolent Lymphomas, Study Finds

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Using Rituxan (rituximab) as first-line treatment for indolent — or slow-growing — lymphomas leads to similar long-term survival as regimens containing both Rituxan and chemotherapy, a study shows. The approach also eliminated ... Read more

November 12, 2018

FDA Gives Selinexor Fast Track Status for DLBCL Treatment

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted fast track status to Karyopharm Therapeutics‘ investigational oral therapy selinexor for people with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) who have received two or more ... Read more

November 9, 2018

Seattle Genetics Seeks Adcetris Approval as First-Line Combo Treatment for Peripheral T-cell Lymphomas

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Seattle Genetics has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to expand the label for Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) to be used in combination with chemotherapy as a first-line treatment for patients with ... Read more

November 6, 2018

Adcetris as Stem Cell Transplant Consolidation Therapy Delays Hodgkin’s Progression in Long-term, Data Show

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Patients with classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma who are at high risk of progressing after a stem cell transplant may benefit significantly from Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) consolidation treatment in the long-term, researchers found. ... Read more

November 5, 2018

Imbruvica Combo Improves Long-term Survival in CLL/SLL Patients, Updated Phase 3 Results Show

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Combining AbbVie’s Imbruvica (ibrutinib) with Treanda (bendamustine) and Rituxan (rituximab) improves long-term survival outcomes in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) whose cancer reappeared or ... Read more

November 5, 2018

MK-1454/Keytruda Combination Shows Promise in Solid Tumor and Lymphoma Patients

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A combination of the investigational agent MK-1454 and Keytruda (pembrolizumab) induced robust and durable responses in solid tumor and lymphoma patients in a Phase 1 trial, Merck (known as MSD outside the ... Read more

November 2, 2018November 1, 2018

I Find Hope in Cancer-themed Humor

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

I have a confession: I like cancer humor. I would share a cancer joke, but I know it’s not everyone’s thing. Some people are offended by it. Some are saddened ... Read more

October 31, 2018

BeiGene Asking That Zanubrutinib Be Approved to Treat Advanced CLL/SLL Patients in China

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Chinese regulatory authorities agreed to review a request that BeiGene’s Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor zanubrutinib be approved to treat patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) ... Read more

October 30, 2018

BTK Inhibitor M7583 Shows Significant Benefit in B-Cell Lymphomas in Phase 1 Trial

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Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor M7583 is proving to be safe and beneficial in patients with refractory or resistant B-cell lymphomas, according to an ongoing Phase 1 trial. Updated trial data ... Read more

October 29, 2018

Targeting B-cell Lymphoma with Natural Killer T-cells May Be More Effective, Cheaper, Preclinical Study Shows

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Targeting B-cell lymphoma using genetically modified natural killer T-cells — rather than general T-cells — may be a more effective, cheaper, “off-the-shelf” immunotherapy, a preclinical study suggests. The study, “Enhanced ... Read more

October 26, 2018

Orgenesis, Hemogenyx Collaborating on Cell Replacement Technology for Blood Cancers

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Orgenesis has partnered with Hemogenyx Pharmaceuticals to drive the development and commercialization of Hemogenyx’s human postnatal hemogenic endothelial cell (Hu-PHEC) technology for the treatment of blood cancers. Hu-PHEC is a cell replacement technology designed ... 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