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 27, 2019October 16, 2019

Compass Self Storage Raises $100K for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Children’s Initiative

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Compass Self Storage has raised more than $100,000 this year for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), particularly for its children’s initiative. The $101,618 raised brings to more than $500,000 ... Read more

September 26, 2019

FDA Grants Abexinostat Fast Track Status for Follicular Lymphoma

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Xynomic Pharmaceutical‘s abexinostat has received Fast Track Designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a fourth-line treatment for follicular lymphoma, the company announced in a press release. ... Read more

September 24, 2019

Fate Therapeutics Plans Trials Testing Off-the-shelf NK Cell Therapy for Lymphoma, Leukemia

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Fate Therapeutics has been cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate clinical studies evaluating FT596, its off-the-shelf cell-based immunotherapy designed to target multiple tumor proteins. The ... Read more

September 20, 2019September 20, 2019

‘Be Bold, Be Bald!’ Day for Cancer Organizations Set for Oct. 18

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In solidarity with cancer patients, including those with lymphoma, thousands of people throughout the U.S. are expected to sport bald caps Oct. 18 as part of an annual effort called ... Read more

September 19, 2019

LRF Encourages All to ‘Light It Red’ for September, Blood Cancer Awareness Month

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To raise funds and disease awareness, as well as to encourage patients, the Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF) is presenting its annual Light it Red (LIR) for Lymphoma effort. The September-long initiative is ... Read more

September 17, 2019

2K’s WWE Video Game Will Help Raise Awareness of Blood Cancers

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In a campaign featuring World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) superstar and leukemia survivor Roman Reigns, video game publisher 2K is partnering with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to heighten awareness around ... Read more

September 16, 2019September 11, 2019

Being Reborn: My Stem Cell Transplant Journey

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

It seems like years have passed since I published a column. In reality, it’s been less than two months. But as we know, life can change pretty drastically over the ... Read more

September 13, 2019

Partnership Aims to Identify DLBCL Patients Likely to Benefit from ADCT-402

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ADC Therapeutics announced it partnered with Freenome to identify biomarkers that can help to predict which diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients are most likely to respond to ADCT-402 (loncastuximab tesirine), ... Read more

September 13, 2019September 11, 2019

Real Awareness Means Understanding What Cancer Patients Experience

Columns, Things That Give Me Hope - a Column by Bob McEachern

We’re right in the middle of Lymphoma Awareness Month. I’ve always had kind of a funny relationship with it. It seems silly to remind me to be aware of something ... Read more

September 12, 2019September 12, 2019

Opdivo-Adcetris Combo Shows Promise in Advanced PMBL Patients in Trial

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Combining Opdivo (nivolumab) with Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) could be a promising option for people with advanced primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma (PMBL), an aggressive and hard-to-treat disease, results from the CheckMate-436 ... Read more

September 10, 2019

Biosimilar ABP 798 Shows Similar Safety and Efficacy to Rituxan in Phase 3 Trial for Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

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ABP 798, a biosimilar to Rituxan (rituximab), is showing comparable efficacy results to its original product in a Phase 3 trial for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma patients, the treatment’s co-developers, Amgen and Allergan, have ... Read more

$Gazyva-Revlimid Effective for Certain Patients with Relapsed or Refractory Follicular Lymphoma, Trial Suggests$

September 6, 2019

Gazyva-Revlimid Effective for Certain Patients with Relapsed or Refractory Follicular Lymphoma, Trial Suggests

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A combination of Gazyva (obinutuzumab) and Revlimid (lenalidomide) is effective for some patients with follicular lymphoma who failed prior treatments, including those with early relapses, according to a Phase 2 ... 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