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

July 12, 2017July 12, 2017

Lymphoma Therapy Developer Kite Is Number 7 on MIT Technology Review’s List of 50 Smartest Companies

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Kite Pharma is ranked #7 on MIT Technology Review’s list of the 50 Smartest Companies for its pioneering work in engineered cell therapy for treating cancer. The company received the recognition for ... Read more

FDA Will Review Application Seeking Approval of Truxima for Same Indications as Rituxan

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted for review the biologics license application (BLA) requesting the approval of Truxima (CT-P10), a biosimilar to Rituxan (rituximab), for the treatment of ... Read more

July 10, 2017July 10, 2017

Potential Oral Therapy for Indolent Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Duvelisib, Shows Efficacy in Phase 2 Trial

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An investigative oral therapy, duvelisib, was effective in treating indolent non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma among patients who did not respond to Rituxan (rituximab) and chemotherapy or radioimmunotherapy, according to results from a Phase ... Read more

July 7, 2017July 7, 2017

Response to Kite’s CAR T-Cell Therapy in NHL Isn’t Dependent on Disease Factors, Researchers Say

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The ZUMA-1 Phase 2 clinical trial of the CAR T-cell therapy axicabtagene ciloleucel (KTE-C19) showed that 82% of patients with treatment-resistant or relapsed aggressive non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) responded to the ... Read more

EU Approves Besponsa for Adults with B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

ALL, News

The European Union has approved Pfizer‘s Besponsa as a treatment for adults with a type of B-cell leukemia. The authorization applies to patients with relapsed or refractory CD22-positive B-cell acute lymphoblastic ... Read more

10 Tips for a ‘Common Sense Approach’ to Life With a Chronic Illness

FDA Approves New Diagnostic Tool for Leukemias and Lymphomas

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new laboratory test to help clinicians detect leukemia and lymphoma cells using a technique called flow cytometry. The ClearLLab Reagents, ... Read more

June 30, 2017June 30, 2017

85% of Hodgkin Lymphoma Patients Respond to Adcetris-Opdivo Combo, Trial Shows

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A combination of Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) and Opdivo (nivolumab) led to Hodgkin lymphoma diminishing in 85 percent of patients in a Phase 1/2 trial (NCT02572167), researchers reported. Among them, 63 ... Read more

June 29, 2017June 28, 2017

Finding My New Normal As a Young Adult Cancer Survivor

Overcoming Adversity- a Column by Radiant Racheli

It’s been two years since I was diagnosed with cancer, and I’m still wondering when in the world I’ll feel normal again. There was a social media post going around ... Read more

Checking These Areas for Lumps Can Help Catch Lymphoma Early