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

August 7, 2018

New Fluorescent Probe Able to Identify, Track Evasive Cancer Stem Cells in Mice, Study Reports

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Scientists have developed a molecular probe that finds and illuminates cancer stem cells in human cancer cell lines and live mice. The ability to identify and track these elusive cells, ... Read more

August 6, 2018August 7, 2018

Compound Puts Cancer Cells into ‘Permanent Sleep’ in Mouse Study

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Researchers in Australia have developed a new compound that arrests the growth and spread of cancer cells — including lymphoma — in mice, without the harmful side effects of conventional therapies. ... Read more

August 3, 2018

Gazyva Infusion Could Be Shorter for Some NHL Patients, Study Finds

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Shortening the time needed for an infusion of Gazyva (obinutuzumab) did not affect the safety of Japanese patients with previously untreated CD20-positive B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a new study shows. “Safety, tolerability ... Read more

August 2, 2018

Venclexta Triple Combo in NHL Patients Produces Long-lasting Responses in Phase 1 Trial

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A combination of Venclexta (venetoclax), bendamustine, and Rituxan (rituximab) is tolerable and produces long-lasting responses in patients with relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL), according to a Phase 1 trial. The study, “Venetoclax, bendamustine, ... Read more

August 1, 2018

Ranimustine-based Conditioning Regimen Before Stem Cell Transplant Effective in DLBCL Patients, Study Suggests

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A chemotherapeutic regimen that includes high-dose ranimustine may be used to prepare patients for a stem cell transplant, ultimately leading to high survival rates in patients with relapsed or high-risk ... Read more

July 31, 2018

Dietary Supplement with Probiotics, Digestive Enzymes May Protect Gut from Chemotherapy Side Effects

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Taking a dietary supplement with probiotics and digestive enzymes helped prevent damage to the gut’s microbial community from chemotherapy, a recent study suggests. The study, “Protection from chemotherapy- and antibiotic-mediated ... Read more

July 30, 2018July 31, 2018

Revlimid-Rituxan Combo May Replace Chemo, Delay Decline for Some Lymphoma Patients, Phase 3 Trial Shows

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Adding Revlimid (lenalidomide) to Rituxan (rituximab) in the treatment of follicular lymphoma and marginal zone lymphoma patients who failed at least one prior therapy significantly delays disease progression or death, a Phase 3 ... Read more

July 27, 2018

BeiGene’s Therapy Candidate Appears to Eliminate Tumors in Half of Hodgkin’s Patients in Phase 2 Trial

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BeiGene‘s immunotherapy candidate tislelizumab was shown to eliminate tumors in 50% of patients with classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma who had failed to respond to their most recent treatment, according to preliminary results of a Phase ... Read more

July 26, 2018

Velcade-based Therapy Effective in Certain East Asian Mantle Cell Lymphoma Patients, Study Finds

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A treatment combination including Velcade (bortezomib) was seen to be more effective than the standard R-CHOP chemotherapy in East Asian patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) who cannot undergo a stem ... Read more

July 24, 2018

CLR 131 Significantly Reduces DLBCL Patients’ Tumor Size in Phase 2 Trial

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The investigative drug CLR 131 all but eliminated tumor cells in one-third of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients treated in a Phase 2 trial, and is showing promise in other kinds ... Read more

July 23, 2018July 19, 2018

How Cancer Made Me a More Conscious Consumer

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

One of the biggest changes that came out of cancer for me was learning how to look after my health, mainly by becoming more conscious of what I consume. I ... Read more

July 20, 2018

Adding Imbruvica to R-CHOP Does Not Improve Outcomes for Newly Diagnosed DLBCL Patients, Phase 3 Trial Shows

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Adding Imbruvica (ibrutinib) to a standard chemotherapy regimen does not improve outcomes for people newly diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), an aggressive form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), a Phase 3 trial ... 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