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 11, 2018

Bowel Rest Not Seen to Benefit NHL Patients with Gastrointestinal Involvement in Study

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Bowel rest — in which patients do not ingest any food and are fed intravenously — does not significantly lower perforation rates or improve overall outcomes in non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma patients with ... Read more

May 10, 2018

UK Agency Recommends 3 New Blood Cancer Therapies, Including Adcetris for Lymphoma

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The United Kingdom’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recently recommended that three new blood cancer therapies be covered by the National Health Service (NHS) — Trisenox (arsenic trioxide), Rydapt ... Read more

May 10, 2018May 9, 2018

I’ve Seen the Impact of Cancer Research

Columns, Overcoming Adversity- a Column by Radiant Racheli

Before my cancer diagnosis, the only cancer organizations I knew of were some breast cancer charities and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). As someone who didn’t have cancer and wasn’t ... Read more

May 9, 2018May 9, 2018

Gift of Life Marrow Registry Helps California Dad with Leukemia

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The nonprofit Gift of Life Marrow Registry recently helped a California father of three get a second chance at life, after matching a donor nearly 3,000 miles away in New ... Read more

May 8, 2018

Forty Seven’s 5F9 Immunotherapy on FDA Fast Track for DLBCL, Follicular Lymphoma

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted fast track status to Forty Seven’s lead candidate Hu5F9-G4 for the treatment of relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and follicular lymphoma. ... Read more

May 7, 2018

Arthritis Medication May Prevent GvHD, Side Effect of Stem Cell Transplants, Mouse Study Suggests

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Baricitinib, a medicine approved in Europe for the treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, both prevented and reverted a life-threatening complication of stem cell transplants called graft-versus-host disease, a study in mice suggests. Notably, ... Read more

May 4, 2018May 4, 2018

Takeda, Nectar Plan to Test New IO Combination in non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Patients

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Nektar Therapeutics and Takeda Pharmaceutical are working together to evaluate a new therapy combining a lead investigational compound from each company — NKTR-214 and TAK-659N — in people with blood cancers ... Read more

$FDA Approves Kymriah for Relapsed or Refractory Large B-cell Lymphoma$

May 3, 2018

FDA Approves Kymriah for Relapsed or Refractory Large B-cell Lymphoma

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel) for the treatment of adults with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma, Novartis announced. Specifically, the approval of intravenous Kymriah suspension is ... Read more

May 3, 2018May 2, 2018

Responding Wisely to the Fear of Relapse

Columns, Overcoming Adversity- a Column by Radiant Racheli

Going into Life After Cancer, I thought I’d be spared from having high anxiety about relapse. I thought that my positivity would outshine the worries of cancer coming back and that ... Read more

May 2, 2018

CHMP Recommends Approval of Generic Carmustine for Lymphoma, Brain Tumors

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The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended approval of the generic medication Carmustine Obvius (carmustine) for the treatment of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Hodgkin’s ... Read more

April 30, 2018April 30, 2018

Dosing Begins in Phase 1 Trial of STRO-001, Potential Lymphoma and Multiple Myeloma Therapy

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A Phase 1 study of Sutro Biopharma’s STRO-001 treatment candidate for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and multiple myeloma has begun dosing patients, the company announced. STRO-001 is an antibody drug conjugate (ADC) that targets ... Read more

April 27, 2018April 27, 2018

FDA Orders Enrollment Hold on Tazemetostat Clinical Trials

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Patient enrollment for clinical trials of Epizyme’s tazemetostat is temporarily on hold. The decision from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) follows a safety report of a pediatric patient ... 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