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

November 8, 2017

Novartis Files for Approval of Kymriah for Two Blood Cancers in the EU

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Novartis continues the process of making Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel) commercially available outside the U.S., now by applying with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to approve the treatment for two types of ... Read more

November 7, 2017November 7, 2017

Study Links Early Progression to Poorer Survival Outcomes in Follicular Lymphoma Patients

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New data from the GALLIUM Phase 3 trial (NCT01332968) shows that follicular lymphoma patients who progress within two years of immunochemotherapy have a 26-fold increased risk of death, compared to those ... Read more

November 6, 2017

Bayer to Present Long-term Results of Aliqopa in Treating Indolent Lymphomas at ASH 2017

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Bayer will present long-term safety and efficacy data from the CHRONOS-1 trial of Aliqopa (copanlisib) in patients with indolent lymphomas at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) 2017 Annual Meeting ... Read more

$MorphoSys’ MOR208 Receives Breakthrough Therapy Status in US for Relapsed or Refractory DLBCL$

November 3, 2017

MorphoSys’ MOR208 Receives Breakthrough Therapy Status in US for Relapsed or Refractory DLBCL

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted breakthrough therapy designation to MorphoSys‘ MOR208 – in combination with Revlimid (lenalidomide) – for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse ... Read more

November 2, 2017

Novartis Asks FDA to Approve Kymriah for Difficult-to-treat DLBCL

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Novartis has asked U.S. regulators to expand their approval of Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel) to include the treatment of adults with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, or DLBCL. The Food ... Read more

November 1, 2017November 1, 2017

FDA Grants Accelerated Approval to Calquence for Mantle Cell Lymphoma

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved AstraZeneca‘s Calquence (acalabrutinib) for the treatment of adult patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) who have received at least one prior therapy. The FDA’s accelerated ... Read more

October 31, 2017

Health Canada OKs Imbruvica for Treating Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease

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Janssen‘s Imbruvica (ibrutinib) has been approved by Health Canada for treating chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD), a life-threatening condition that some patients develop after a stem cell transplant. Following a priority ... 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