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 12, 2018

Xynomic Pharma Plans 4 Clinical Trials of Abexinostat for Lymphoma

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Xynomic Pharma announced it has completed a new Series B financing round and now will initiate eight clinical trials, four of which are for different types of lymphoma, in the next 12 ... Read more

June 11, 2018

First-line GEM-P Chemo Fails to Improve Response Rates in Peripheral T-cell Lymphomas, Results Show

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The GEM-P chemotherapy regimen composed of gemcitabine, Platinol (cisplatin), and the corticosteroid methylprednisolone failed to improve response rates of peripheral T-cell lymphoma patients who have not received prior treatment, according to Phase 2 trial results. ... Read more

June 11, 2018June 7, 2018

This Is Why I’m Grateful for Cancer

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

We all hear the words “grateful” and “cancer” regularly enough, but it’s not often that we see them together in the same sentence. In fact, it is rare that mainstream ... Read more

June 8, 2018

Imbruvica-Rituxan Combo Significantly Delays Progression of Rare Type of Lymphoma in Phase 3 Trial

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A combination of Imbruvica (ibrutinib) and Rituxan (rituximab) significantly extends the time to disease worsening or death in patients with a rare type of lymphoma called Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia, a Phase 3 trial ... Read more

June 7, 2018

Cerdulatinib Shows Promising Phase 2a Trial Results in Blood Cancer Patients, Including NHL

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Portola Pharmaceuticals‘ investigative therapy cerdulatinib is effective and well-tolerated in patients with several types of blood cancer, including non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, who failed multiple prior therapies, according to interim results of ... Read more

June 6, 2018

Phase 3 Trial to Test Yescarta as Second-line Therapy for DLBCL Patients

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Kite Pharma has opened a new Phase 3 clinical trial to investigate the effectiveness of Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel) as a second-line therapy for patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma ... Read more

June 5, 2018

Phase 2 Data Continues to Support Remetinostat in Easing Itching in Early Stage Mycosis Fungoides

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Topical remetinostat gel significantly reduces itching in patients with a kind of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma called mycosis fungoides, data from a Phase 2 trial shows. The medicine also reduced the ... Read more

June 4, 2018

Alexo Begins Testing ALX148 Combinations in Phase 1 Trial of NHL, Solid Tumors

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Alexo Therapeutics has started treating patients in the combination part of its Phase 1 trial, which will test multiple combinations of ALX148 with targeted antibody therapies — including Keytruda (pembrolizumab), Herceptin ... Read more

June 4, 2018June 1, 2018

Upon Hearing Those 3 Words: ‘You Have Cancer’

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

It was Monday morning. The sun was shining and life was good. It was the start of what I’d assumed was going to be my best summer yet. I was ... Read more

June 1, 2018

CAR T-cell Therapy JCAR017 Shows Sustained Anticancer Response in Aggressive B-Cell Lymphoma, Trial Update Reports

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Treatment with the CAR T-cell therapy JCAR017 (lisocabtagene maraleucel, or liso-cel) provided a durable reduction or eradication of cancer in patients with aggressive forms of B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL), long-term ... Read more

May 31, 2018

Xalkori Named Breakthrough Therapy for Difficult-to-Treat Rare Lymphoma

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted breakthrough therapy designation to Pfizer’s Xalkori (crizotinib) for the treatment of a subgroup of difficult-to-treat systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL). The FDA’s ... Read more

May 31, 2018May 29, 2018

Lymphoma and the Gifts My Cancer Experience Have Given Me

Columns, Overcoming Adversity- a Column by Radiant Racheli

I was diagnosed with cancer at 21, and putting my life on hold was scary. I felt that I didn’t deserve this diagnosis, I didn’t deserve to be scarred in ... 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