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

July 19, 2018

Study Examines Prescription Rates for Rituximab Biosimilars in European NHL Patients

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European patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) are more likely to receive rituximab biosimilars if they are fitter, have indolent disease, or follicular lymphoma, according to a new study. The study, “Treatment approach for ... Read more

July 17, 2018

FDA OKs Adagene’s ADG-106 for Clinical Trial in Solid Tumors, Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

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Adagene soon will initiate a Phase 1 clinical trial testing its lead product, ADG-106, in patients who have advanced solid tumors and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the company announced. This follows the U.S. ... Read more

July 16, 2018July 13, 2018

How Solitude Can Help Us Survive the Storm

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

The rain was falling hard and fast outside the wooden cabin where I was staying. Six months of exhaustion seemed to have finally hit me now that I’d finally slowed ... Read more

July 11, 2018July 11, 2018

Health Canada OKs Gazyva as First-line Therapy for Advanced Follicular Lymphoma

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Patients in Canada who have advanced follicular lymphoma now can receive Gazyva (obinutuzumab) in combination with chemotherapy as first-line therapy, Roche Canada announced. Health Canada’s decision follows Gazyva’s approval in the ... Read more

July 10, 2018

Lymphoma Therapies Kymriah, Yescarta Recommended for Approval in Europe

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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended the approval of two lymphoma medications: Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel) and Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel). The EMA’s decision represents the first two recommendations for chimeric antigen receptors ... Read more

$Sintilimab Safe, Effective for Relapsed or Refractory Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Patients, Phase 2 Trial Shows$

July 9, 2018

Sintilimab Safe, Effective for Relapsed or Refractory Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Patients, Phase 2 Trial Shows

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Sintilimab (IBI308), an immunotherapy candidate, was found to be safe and completely eliminated tumors in one-fourth of Chinese patients with relapsed or refractory classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma (cHL) treated in a Phase 2 ... Read more

July 9, 2018July 5, 2018

Dealing with Sickness in the Midst of Sickness

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

So far, most of my columns have been pretty upbeat, although centered around a pretty heavy topic. This week, I’m getting a bit more personal and exploring an illness facet ... Read more

July 5, 2018

Six-gene Signature Predicts Survival in Mantle Cell Lymphoma Patients, Study Reports

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A six-gene signature related to B-cell activity can predict survival in patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), a study suggests. Conducted by researchers in Italy, the study, “A B-Cell Receptor-Related ... Read more

July 3, 2018

FDA Names CPI-613, Potential Treatment for Burkitt’s Lymphoma, an Orphan Drug

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has again designated Rafael Pharmaceuticals’ lead candidate CPI-613 an orphan drug, this time to further advance it in clinical trials as a potential treatment for Burkitt’s lymphoma. ... Read more

July 2, 2018

Umbralisib Linked to Fewer Side Effects in Advanced Lymphoma and Leukemia Patients, Data Show

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Umbralisib, an inhibitor of the PI3K delta protein, has a better long-term safety profile than equivalent treatments for advanced leukemia and lymphoma patients, those whose cancer failed to respond to multiple therapy ... Read more

July 2, 2018June 28, 2018

Don’t Let Lymphoma Stop You From Living

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

For many of us, being diagnosed with cancer means putting much of our lives on pause. Although some are able to continue studying or working throughout treatment, many of us ... Read more

June 29, 2018

New Biosensor Sheds Light on Behavior of Individual Cancer Cells, Study Reports

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A newly developed biosensor that harnesses the power of nanophotonics is able to detect the secretion of cytokines — small inflammatory molecules that play important roles in cancer — from ... 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