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

September 19, 2017

UCSD Researchers Awarded $18.3M to Study New Combo Therapy for B-cell Cancers

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The Independent Citizens Oversight Committee of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has aproved an $18.29 million grant to researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) School ... Read more

September 18, 2017

Bayer Presents Copanlisib Combination Trials at Scientific Meeting

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Two Phase 3 trials will assess the potential of Bayer’s copanlisib in combination with other treatment in patients with relapsed indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, based on positive data from a ... Read more

September 15, 2017September 15, 2017

FDA Approves Bayer’s Aliqopa for Relapsed Follicular Lymphoma

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Bayer’s Aliqopa (copanlisib) for patients with follicular lymphoma who have relapsed after at least two earlier therapies. The agency granted Aliqopa an accelerated ... Read more

September 14, 2017September 14, 2017

Jazz Partners with ImmunoGen to Develop Antibody-Drug Conjugate for AML, Other Blood Diseases

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Jazz Pharmaceuticals and ImmunoGen have entered a partnership to advance two antibody-drug conjugates — IMGN779 and IMGN632 — for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and other blood-related disorders. The drugs are CD33 and CD123 antibodies, ... Read more

September 13, 2017

Study Identifies Factors Associated with Young Cancer Survivors’ Reduced Ability to Work

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Depression, fatigue, and reduced physical quality of life are among the factors that limit young cancer survivors’ ability to work, according to a Norwegian study. Side effects of treatment can ... Read more

September 12, 2017

Transplant Recipients Account for 3% of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Cases in Children, Study Finds

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Nearly three out of every 100 cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in American children and adolescents occurs in those who received an organ transplant, a study reports. The research showed that the ... Read more

September 11, 2017September 11, 2017

Advisory Agency Decision Will Make Lymphoma Therapy Adcetris More Accessible in UK

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Britain’s national health service advisory agency has made a decision that will make Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) more accessible as a treatment for an aggressive type of lymphoma. The National Institute for Health and ... Read more

September 8, 2017September 10, 2017

FDA Places Holds on Imfinzi Trials Following Unexplained Deaths in Keytruda Trials

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has placed a partial hold on two clinical trials testing a combination of AstraZeneca‘s Imfinzi (durvalumab) with an immunomodulatory drug in lymphoma and leukemia patients. ... 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