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

February 15, 2018

Researchers Publish Report to Help Clinicians Manage Patient Use of Cannabis Products

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As the number of states legalizing cannabis as pain relief for cancers like lymphoma and other medicinal and recreational purposes increases, researchers published a report to help clinicians guide patient ... Read more

February 15, 2018March 27, 2018

Showing Off My Cancer Tattoos

Columns, Overcoming Adversity- a Column by Radiant Racheli

I had already begun the tattoo addiction on my right arm before being diagnosed with lymphoma. Once diagnosed and well into treatment, I knew that getting a tattoo once I ... Read more

February 14, 2018February 14, 2018

Mouse Study Offers New Approach to Combat Side Effect of Stem Cell Transplants, GVHD

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A new study identified a target protein called JAK2 (Janus kinase 2) as a main player in causing graft-versus-host disease, a potential life-threatening side effect of stem cell transplants that ... Read more

February 13, 2018February 13, 2018

UK Agency Recommends Gazyvaro for First-Line Treatment of Follicular Lymphoma

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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the United Kingdom has recommended Roche‘s Gazyvaro (obinutuzumab) as a first-line treatment for follicular lymphoma patients, after initially rejecting it. Routine use of ... Read more

February 12, 2018February 12, 2018

Gene Sequencing Technique Accurately Detects Cancer-specific Mutations in Lymphoid Tumors

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Capture hybridization-based sequencing, a gene sequencing technique, is superior for the detection of lymphoid cancer-associated mutations in a panel of 32 genes, a new study shows. This approach, compared to amplicon ... Read more

February 9, 2018February 9, 2018

Triple Combo Therapy Improves Outcomes for Certain Mantle Cell Lymphoma Patients

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Combining Imbruvica (ibrutinib) with Revlimid (lenalidomide) and Rituxan (rituximab) may improve the poor outcomes of relapsed mantle cell lymphoma patients with certain genetic alterations, a Phase 2 trial suggests. But ... Read more

$Verastem Seeks Approval of Duvelisib for Patients with Relapsed or Refractory CLL/SLL and Follicular Lymphoma$

February 8, 2018February 8, 2018

Verastem Seeks Approval of Duvelisib for Patients with Relapsed or Refractory CLL/SLL and Follicular Lymphoma

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Verastem is seeking approval of duvelisib to treat refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) in the U.S. The new drug application submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also requests the accelerated approval ... Read more

February 8, 2018February 7, 2018

Do Cancer Patients Experience Post-traumatic Growth?

Columns, Overcoming Adversity- a Column by Radiant Racheli

Early this morning, at 4 a.m. to be exact, I was driving to a meeting for work. Instead of my usual jam session in the car, I decided to listen ... Read more

February 7, 2018February 7, 2018

90% of Mycosis Fungoides Patients Improved After MRG-106 Treatment, Study Shows

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MRG-106, an RNA-based therapy, induced clinical improvements in 90 percent of patients with mycosis fungoides – a subtype of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) – in a Phase 1 clinical trial testing ... Read more

$Cellectar Enrolls First DLBCL Patient in Phase 2 Trial Testing CLR 131 in Refractory B-cell Cancers$

February 6, 2018February 6, 2018

Cellectar Enrolls First DLBCL Patient in Phase 2 Trial Testing CLR 131 in Refractory B-cell Cancers

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Cellectar Biosciences has recruited the first patient with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) into its Phase 2 clinical trial testing the company’s lead investigational phospholipid-drug conjugate, CLR 131. The trial includes ... Read more

February 5, 2018February 5, 2018

Affimed’s AFM13 Shows High Response Rates in 2 Lymphoma Subtypes

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AFM13, a bispecific antibody that recruits natural killer (NK) cells to the vicinity of a tumor, has shown promise in clinical trials of both Hodgkin’s lymphoma and in CD30-positive cutaneous ... Read more

February 2, 2018February 2, 2018

Aggressive Treatment Seen to Help Advanced Follicular Lymphoma Patients in Phase 2 Trial

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Sequential chemoimmunotherapy, radioimmunotherapy, and maintenance treatment with Rituxan (rituximab) improves progression-free survival and delays disease progression in patients with untreated advanced follicular lymphoma, Phase 2 clinical trial data shows. The study reporting ... 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