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

May 30, 2018

Atara’s Tab-cel Shows Promise for Treating Transplant-derived Lymphoma, Trial Data Shows

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Atara Biotherapeutics’s investigative therapy Tab-cel (tabelecleucel) is a potentially safe and viable option to treat transplant-derived lymphoma, according to long-term data from two Phase 2 clinical trials. The new results will ... Read more

May 29, 2018

Arzerra-Bendamustine Combo Fails to Delay Disease Worsening in Indolent Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Patients in Phase 3 Trial

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Adding Arzerra (ofatumumab) to the chemotherapy agent bendamustine did not delay disease progression or death in indolent non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma patients whose disease failed to respond to Rituxan (rituximab) treatment, according to a ... Read more

May 25, 2018

Revlimid-Rituxan Combo Could Replace Chemo as Follicular Lymphoma Therapy, Phase 3 Trial Suggests

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A combination of Rituxan (rituximab) and Revlimid (lenalidomide) is similarly effective and has a better safety profile than the standard first-line regimen — chemotherapy and Rituxan — for follicular lymphoma patients, a Phase 3 ... Read more

May 24, 2018

New Collaboration will Study Long-term Outcomes of CAR T-cell Therapy Yescarta

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The Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) and Kite Pharma recently agreed to collaborate on tracking long-term outcomes of patients treated with Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel), a chimeric antigen receptor ... Read more

May 24, 2018May 21, 2018

Recovery from Lymphoma: My Hair Growth Journey

Columns, Overcoming Adversity- a Column by Radiant Racheli

Before my lymphoma days, I was a total wild card with my hair. I used to volunteer myself to model for new hairstylists and get my hair cut or colored ... Read more

May 23, 2018May 23, 2018

TapImmune and Marker Moving Ahead on Merger with Goal of Creating New Immuno-Oncology Platform

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TapImmune announced it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Marker Therapeutics, bringing that company’s multi-antigen T-cell therapy platform to its peptide vaccine portfolio. Markers’ platform has shown promis in ... Read more

May 22, 2018May 22, 2018

Adcetris-Dacarbazine Combo is Effective in Elderly Hodgkin’s Patients, Study Finds

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A combination of Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) and dacarbazine chemotherapy may be a suitable option for frail, elderly patients with classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma who are ineligible for standard treatment, according to data ... Read more

May 21, 2018

Arranon Add-on Improves Long-term Outcomes in Young Patients with T-cell Cancers, Trial Shows

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A combination of Arranon (nelarabine) and standard chemotherapy led to the highest survival rates seen to date in children and young adults with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), a Phase ... Read more

May 18, 2018May 18, 2018

1st Mantle Cell Lymphoma Patient Dosed in Phase 1/2 Trial Testing Cirmtuzumab-Imbruvica Combo

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A Phase 1b/2 clinical trial evaluating Oncternal Therapeutics‘ investigational therapy cirmtuzumab in combination with Imbruvica (ibrutinib) for the treatment of B-cell malignancies has dosed its first patient with mantle cell lymphoma. The trial is ... Read more

May 16, 2018

‘Social Network’ of Genes May Help Identify New Therapy Targets for Lymphoma, Other Cancers

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Understanding the ‘social network’ of genes — how they interact with each other — may help scientists in both normal conditions and in diseases like cancer. Researchers developed a new ... Read more

May 15, 2018

Young Cancer Survivors Show Signs of Accelerated Aging, Study Finds

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Adolescents and young adults who survive cancer are at higher risk of mental and physical weakness and of developing age-related diseases, such as depression and anxiety, a study reports. Other ... Read more

May 14, 2018

Zevalin Plus Aggressive Chemotherapy Safe, Effective for Follicular Lymphoma, Phase 2 Trial Shows

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Supplementing an aggressive chemotherapy regimen with Zevalin (ibritumomab tiuxetan) is safe and provides improved clinical response in patients with intermediate or high-risk follicular lymphoma, results from a Phase 2 clinical trial show. ... 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