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

January 4, 2018

Atara Starts Two Phase 3 Trials of Treatment for Lymphoma That Arises from a Transplant

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Atara Biotherapeutics is conducting two Phase 3 clinical trials of a treatment for a transplant-related disorder that can include lymphoma. The company developed tabelecleucel (ATA129) for people whose dormant Epstein-Barr virus can ... Read more

January 4, 2018January 3, 2018

Survivor’s Guilt After Overcoming Cancer

Columns, Overcoming Adversity- a Column by Radiant Racheli

As a two-year cancer survivor, I have had the heartbreak of experiencing the loss of fellow cancer patients, including my own grandfather. Since being diagnosed with cancer, loss of life ... Read more

January 3, 2018

FDA to Review Adcetris, Chemo Combo as First-line Treatment for Advanced Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has agreed to review Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) in combination with chemotherapy as a frontline treatment for patients with advanced Hodgkin’s lymphoma, according to Seattle Genetics. The supplemental Biologics License ... Read more

January 2, 2018

Verastem to Seek FDA Approval for Duvelisib to Treat SLL and CLL After Consistently Positive Trial Results

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Verastem‘s duvelisib significantly delays disease progression or death in patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL), according to Phase 3 trial results. The trial, called ... Read more

December 22, 2017December 22, 2017

Benefits of 2 CAR T-cell Therapies May Justify Their High Price, ICER Report Argues

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The clinical benefits of two recently approved CAR T-cell cancer therapies appear to justify their hefty price, a draft report by University of Colorado researchers suggests. The researchers — Melanie Whittington, ... Read more

December 21, 2017

Exercising Decreases Risk of Dying from Lymphoma, Mayo Clinic Study Shows

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Exercising reduces the risk of dying from lymphoma, a Mayo Clinic study reports. Dr. Priyanka Pophali, a blood disease specialist at the Rochester, Minnesota-based healthcare organization, presented the findings at the 59th American ... Read more

December 21, 2017December 20, 2017

Chemo Brain Is Real

Columns, Overcoming Adversity- a Column by Radiant Racheli

I am sitting in the car with my friend having a conversation, and while I am about to spew out the next few words of my sentence, I completely forget ... Read more

December 20, 2017December 20, 2017

Key Genes in T-cell Lymphoma Patients Often Missing Agent That Blocks Cancer Signaling, Study Says

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The tumor suppressor PD-1, which serves as shut-off switch to prevent damaged T-cells from continuing to develop and proliferate, is frequently missing in crucial genes of patients with T-cell lymphomas, a ... Read more

December 19, 2017

Juno, Celgene Report Impressive Results of CAR T-cell Therapy in B-cell Lymphoma

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The CAR T-cell therapy JCAR017, developed by Juno Therapeutics and Celgene, eradicated B-cell lymphomas in more than two-thirds of patients with high-risk cancer, the companies announced. The response to the ... Read more

December 18, 2017

Rhizen’s Tenalisib Receives FDA Fast Track Status for Peripheral T-cell Lymphoma

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track Designation to the tenalisib (RP6530), Rhizen Pharmaceuticals‘ PI3K delta/gamma blocker, for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory peripheral ... Read more

December 15, 2017December 15, 2017

FDA Reviews Application for Keytruda in Mediastinal B-cell Lymphoma

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agreed to review Merck’s application to add relapsed or refractory primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma (PMBCL) to the list of cancers treated with ... 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