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 19, 2019November 19, 2019

FDA Approves BeiGene’s Brukinsa to Treat Adults with Mantle Cell Lymphoma

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted conditional approval to BeiGene’s Brukinsa (zanubrutinib) as a second-line treatment for adults with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) who have received at least ... Read more

November 15, 2019

Nanatinostat Combo Put on FDA’s Fast Track for Hard-to-treat Lymphomas Linked to EBV Infection

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted fast track designation to a combination of Viracta Therapeutics‘ investigational therapy nanatinostat and the antiviral valganciclovir in treating relapsed or refractory lymphomas ... Read more

November 14, 2019December 20, 2019

FDA Grants Fast Track Status to Triumvira’s T-cell Therapy TAC01-CD19 for DLBCL

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted fast track designation to Triumvira Immunulogics‘ investigational T-cell therapy TAC01-CD19 for the treatment of relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma ... Read more

November 12, 2019

Janssen Requests FDA Approval of Imbruvica-rituximab Combo for First-line Treatment of CLL/SLL

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Janssen is seeking approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a combination of Imbruvica (ibrutinib) with rituximab to be used as a first-line treatment for people with ... Read more

November 8, 2019

Advanced Follicular Lymphoma Patients Show Positive Overall Response to Umbralisib in Phase 2 Trial

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TG Therapeutics’ umbralisib (TGR-1202), an inhibitor of the PI3K delta protein, has shown promising response rates in patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma, according to new data from a Phase ... Read more

November 7, 2019November 7, 2019

First Patient Enrolled in Trial Testing Defitelio to Prevent Neurotoxicity in DLBCL Patients Receiving CAR T-cell Therapy

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Jazz Pharmaceuticals has enrolled the first participant in a Phase 2 trial assessing the efficacy of Defitelio (defibrotide) to prevent nerve cell toxicity in people with relapsed or refractory diffuse ... Read more

November 5, 2019

Nektar Launches Phase 1 Trial Testing NKTR-255 in Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Multiple Myeloma

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Nektar Therapeutics is launching a first-in-human Phase 1 clinical trial assessing the safety and efficacy of its investigational agent NKTR-255 in people with relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and multiple ... Read more

November 4, 2019October 29, 2019

Nothing but Mammals: How Cancer Affects Sexual Health

Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman

This week, I want to dive into a topic that’s not always at the top of the list during one’s oncology appointments. Yet it’s something that most of us do ... Read more

November 1, 2019November 11, 2019

Copiktra May Be Treatment Option for Advanced Marginal Zone Lymphoma, Trial Data Show

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Copiktra (duvelisib), developed by Verastem Oncology, may be an effective and reasonably safe treatment option for people with marginal zone lymphoma who failed to respond to prior therapies including rituximab, Phase 2 data ... Read more

October 31, 2019

Cirmtuzumab-Imbruvica Combo Trial Opens New Expansion Part for Mantle Cell Lymphoma

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A Phase 1/2 trial assessing Oncternal Therapeutics‘ cirmtuzumab plus Imbruvica (ibrutinib) for the treatment of B-cell cancers is opening a Phase 1b extension part to continue studying the combination in people ... Read more

October 29, 2019

Copiktra Superior to Arzerra for CLL/SLL Patients with Prior Therapies, Data Suggest

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Treatment with Copiktra (duvelisib) doubles response rates compared with Arzerra (ofatumumab), and significantly extends the time until disease progression or death in people with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small ... Read more

October 25, 2019

Durable Responses Seen to ME-401 in Advanced Follicular Lymphoma and CLL/SLL Patients in Ongoing Trial

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MEI Pharma’s experimental compound ME-401 reduced tumor burden in 78% of patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma and in 89% of those with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia or ... 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