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

$Phase 1/2 Trial to Test Yescarta-Utomilumab Combo in Refractory Large B-cell Lymphoma$

January 19, 2018January 19, 2018

Phase 1/2 Trial to Test Yescarta-Utomilumab Combo in Refractory Large B-cell Lymphoma

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A new multicenter Phase 1/2 trial will evaluate an immunotherapy combination of Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel) and utomilumab for the treatment of patients with refractory large B-cell lymphoma. The trial, part of a clinical ... Read more

January 18, 2018January 18, 2018

FDA Promises Rapid Review of Kymriah for Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will prioritize the regulatory review of Novartis’ application to use Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel) for the treatment of adults with relapsed or refractory diffuse large ... Read more

January 18, 2018January 17, 2018

Cancer Doesn’t Have to Be Isolating

Columns, Overcoming Adversity- a Column by Radiant Racheli

Cancer can be quite the isolating experience, regardless of how many physical bodies are around you at all times. It’s a sort of experience that isn’t relatable even to people watching you ... Read more

January 17, 2018January 17, 2018

New Blood Stem Cell Harvest Method Could Speed Up Transplants

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A new method of releasing blood stem cells from the bone marrow into the blood may lead to more rapid and efficient stem cell transplants in lymphoma patients. If confirmed ... Read more

January 16, 2018January 16, 2018

New CAR T-cell Production Method May Offer Faster, More Targeted Therapies, Study Reports

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A new method for growing the T-cells used in lymphoma immunotherapies may some day lead to treatments that are faster and do a better job of honing in on a ... Read more

January 15, 2018January 15, 2018

Age Alone Should Not Exclude Lymphoma Patients From Stem Cell Transplants, Researchers Argue

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Older lymphoma patients should not be excluded from treatment with stem cell transplants based solely on their age, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have concluded after reviewing several patient outcomes. The ... Read more

January 12, 2018

FDA Clears Voruciclib for Phase 1 Trial as Potential Treatment for Certain B-cell Malignancies

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the way for MEI Pharma to launch a Phase 1 study of voruciclib, its oral CDK9 inhibitor, to treat people with ... Read more

January 11, 2018

LLS Receives $5M to Support Research Programs in Mantle Cell Lymphoma

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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) received a $5 million donation from the Sarah Cannon Fund to support two U.S. programs researching mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). The Sarah Cannon Fund at ... Read more

January 10, 2018January 10, 2018

Breast Implants Associated with Small Increased Risk of Anaplastic Large-cell Lymphoma

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A study found that one in 6,920 women with breast implants will develop anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (ALCL) in the breast before they reach the age of 75. Even though the ... Read more

January 9, 2018

FDA Cites Lack of Data About Blood Cancer Medications in Older People

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Older patients are underrepresented in clinical trials of treatments for lymphoma and other blood cancers, despite being the largest patient group affected, researchers from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ... Read more

January 8, 2018

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Launches Navigating Cancer’s Network of Support

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The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) aims to leverage education about blood cancers, including leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma, through a new partnership with Navigating Cancer, a patient relationship management company. ... Read more

January 5, 2018

Cellectar Seeks FDA’s OK to Advance CLR 131 into Trials for Rare Pediatric Cancers

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Cellectar Biosciences has filed an application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to advance CLR 131 into a proposed Phase 1 clinical trial testing the investigational drug in children and teenagers with rare ... 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