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

August 25, 2017August 25, 2017

Phase 3 Trial Underway to Assess Gilteritinib as Maintenance Therapy in Certain AML Patients

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The first participant has begun treatment in a new Phase 3 clinical trial assessing Astellas Pharma‘s gilteritinib as a maintenance therapy for certain acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients who are in remission ... Read more

August 24, 2017August 24, 2017

Syros Therapy SY-1425 Wins FDA’s Orphan Drug Designation to Treat Acute Myeloid Leukemia

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug status to SY-1425 to treat acute myeloid leukemia (AML), said the drug’s developer, Syros Pharmaceuticals. The therapy is being tested ... Read more

August 23, 2017August 23, 2017

New iPhone-based Study to Track Health of Chronic Anemia Patients

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Sage Bionetworks and Celgene have launched a new Apple iPhone-based mobile study, Journey PRO, to learn more about the disease burden borne by people with chronic anemia due to beta-thalassemia, myelofibrosis and myelodysplastic syndromes. The Journey PRO study will ... Read more

August 22, 2017

Vorinostat Might Reduce Stem Cell Transplant Rejection in High-risk Patients

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Adding vorinostat to the standard treatment used during high-risk stem cell transplants might reduce rates of acute transplant rejection, according to a small Phase 2 trial. Since the study also ... Read more

August 21, 2017August 21, 2017

High-dose Vitamin C May Be Effective Against Lymphoma, Other Blood Cancers, Say Researchers

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Vitamin C boosts processes that allow faulty blood stem cells to die instead of multiplying uncontrollably to cause lymphoma or other blood cancers, say researchers at NYU Langone Health‘s Perlmutter Cancer ... Read more

August 19, 2017August 19, 2017

FDA Approves Besponsa for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

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Pfizer Inc. announced that the FDA has approved Besponsa (inotuzumab ozogamicin) for treatment of adults with relapsed or refractory B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). “For adult patients with B-cell ALL whose ... Read more

August 18, 2017

Adcetris Might Be Approved for CTCL by December, as FDA Reviews Marketing Application

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the Biologics License Application (BLA) required to bring Seattle Genetics’ Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) to the market for the treatment ... Read more

August 17, 2017August 17, 2017

Pulmonary Emboli: A Side Effect of Treatment

Overcoming Adversity- a Column by Radiant Racheli

The week before I began treatment, I had a number of appointments to prepare me for what was to come. Among these appointments were tests to measure my lung and ... Read more

August 16, 2017August 16, 2017

TGR-1202 and TG-1101 Combo Is Effective Enough Against Lymphoma to Continue Being Tested in Phase 2 Trial

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A combination of two of TG Therapeutics’ lymphoma treatments proved effective enough to continue enrolling patients in a Phase 2b clinical trial, the company announced. But one of the two failed ... 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