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 27, 2018

Keytruda-AFM13 Combo Effective for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Preliminary Phase 1b Data Show

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Treatment with Keytruda (pembrolizumab) and Affimed’s AFM13 is well-tolerated with a favorable response rate in patients with relapsed or refractory Hodgkin’s lymphoma, according to an early analysis of a Phase 1b trial. ... Read more

June 26, 2018

Venclexta-Rituxan Combo Extends Undetectable Disease in CLL, Study Finds

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A combination of Venclexta (venetoclax) plus Rituxan (rituximab) was better than standard of care at extending the duration of undetectable residual disease in patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic ... Read more

June 25, 2018December 6, 2018

Kymriah Ellicits Prolonged Complete Responses in Advanced DLBCL Patients, Trial Data Show

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Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel), a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy developed by Novartis, is able to ellicit prolonged complete responses with minor side effects in adults with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), according ... Read more

June 25, 2018June 21, 2018

Finding Myself Through Losing My Hair

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

We all know that going through cancer can bring about huge internal changes. It is these changes, predominantly metaphysical, that I tend to focus on in my writing. I talk ... Read more

$Duvelisib Effective in Relapsed or Refractory CLL/SLL Patients Who Failed Arzerra, Extension Study Shows$

June 22, 2018

Duvelisib Effective in Relapsed or Refractory CLL/SLL Patients Who Failed Arzerra, Extension Study Shows

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Patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) who failed prior Arzerra (ofatumumab) treatment achieved robust and durable responses after switching to duvelisib, Verastem Oncology announced. Results from the Phase 3 crossover extension study IPI-145-12 (NCT02049515) ... Read more

June 21, 2018

HDAC6 Inhibitor QTX125 Slows Mantle Cell Lymphoma Progression, Preclinical Study Shows

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A new epigenetic therapy that prevents DNA modifications is able to slow down the growth of mantle cell lymphoma and induce cancer cell death, a study in mice and lab-grown ... Read more

June 21, 2018June 20, 2018

A Farewell to My Lymphoma News Today Column

Columns, Overcoming Adversity- a Column by Radiant Racheli

Even the most amazing things must come to an end. After enjoying this past year and a half of sharing my experience with lymphoma on this platform, I have decided ... Read more

June 20, 2018

Keytruda Conditionally Approved in US for Primary Mediastinal B-cell Lymphoma

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted accelerated approval to Keytruda (pembrolizumab) for the treatment of relapsed or refractory primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma (PMBCL), making it the first anti-PD-1 therapy ... Read more

June 19, 2018

Trial of Betalutin-Rituxan Combo as Second-line Follicular Lymphoma Therapy Poised to Launch in Norway

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A Phase 1b trial evaluating a combination of Betalutin (177Lu-satetraxetan-lilotomab) and Rituxan (rituximab) as a second-line therapy for follicular lymphoma will begin soon in Norway following Nordic Nanovector receiving all necessary approvals. The trial, called Archer-1, ... Read more

June 18, 2018

FDA Approves Venclexta-Rituxan Combo Therapy for CLL/SLL Patients

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a combination treatment of Venclexta (venetoclax tablets) with Rituxan (rituximab) for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic lymphoma ... Read more

June 18, 2018June 15, 2018

How Speaking Our Truth Can Help Us Heal

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

It’s been exactly two years since I finished chemo. Two and a half years since my diagnosis. And in that time my hair has grown, I’ve graduated from university, traveled ... Read more

June 14, 2018

First Patient Dosed in Phase 2 Trial of eFT508 for Aggressive Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

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The Phase 1/2 clinical trial evaluating eFT508 for the treatment of relapsed or refractory non-germinal center B-cell (non-GCB) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) has dosed the first patient in its Phase ... 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