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 5, 2019

Inherited BRCA2 Mutations Linked to Risk of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in Children

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Inherited mutations in the DNA repair gene BRCA2 — a well-known risk factor for breast and ovarian cancers in adults — also show a significant association with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in children ... Read more

September 3, 2019

LLS Calls on Stakeholders to Combat Soaring Cancer Care Costs

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The rising cost of cancer care in the United States is increasingly being passed on to patients, some of whom defer or skip treatments because they can’t afford them, says ... Read more

August 30, 2019

Trial of Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma Therapy WP1220 Fully Enrolled

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A Phase 2 clinical trial of WP1220, a potential topical treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) lesions, has reached full patient enrollment. Developed by Moleculin Biotech, WP1220 is an inhibitor ... Read more

August 27, 2019

Cirmtuzumab-Imbruvica Combo Trial Enrolling CLL, SLL Patients for Phase 2

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Following promising early efficacy results for a cirmtuzumab–Imbruvica treatment combo, a Phase 2 clinical trial has now been opened to people with chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL). The opening of ... Read more

August 23, 2019

FDA Grants Priority Review to Zanubrutinib as Treatment for Mantle Cell Lymphoma

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review BeiGene‘s application requesting the approval of zanubrutinib for treating people with mantle cell lymphoma who received at least one ... Read more

August 22, 2019August 22, 2019

Lymphoma Research Foundation to Honor MSK’s Anas Younes at September Gala

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The Lymphoma Research Foundation will honor Anas Younes, an oncologist and lymphoma expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center, with its Distinguished Leadership Award next month at the nonprofit’s annual gala. The ... Read more

August 20, 2019

Clinical Trials in China Will Test Abexinostat for DLBCL, Follicular Lymphoma

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Xynomic Pharma is launching two pivotal clinical trials in China to test its investigational HDAC inhibitor, abexinostat, as a third-line therapy for two types of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma: diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and follicular ... Read more

August 16, 2019

Imbruvica Use Expanded in EU to Combo Treatments for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Waldenström’s Macroglobulinemia

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The European Commission (EC) has expanded the use of Imbruvica (ibrutinib) to cover combinations with Gazyva (obinutuzumab) for previously untreated adults with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), and with MabThera (rituximab) for ... Read more

August 16, 2019August 14, 2019

Finding My ‘Big Lymphoma Family’

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

Cancer has a way of isolating us. Friends and family can be supportive, but sometimes they don’t understand what you’re going through. I have found that it helps to think ... Read more

August 13, 2019September 4, 2019

Medicare Now Covers CAR T-cell Therapy for Certain Lymphomas and Leukemias

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Medicare will provide nationwide coverage for CAR T-cell therapies, an innovative anti-cancer treatment, for certain types of lymphoma and leukemia, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced. ... Read more

August 9, 2019September 9, 2019

Cerdulatinib Alone or with Rituxan Effective in Previously Treated Follicular Lymphoma, Data Show

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Treatment with the oral therapy cerdulatinib alone or in combination with Rituxan (rituximab) shows durable efficacy, including some complete responses, in patients with follicular lymphoma who failed prior medications, according ... Read more

August 8, 2019September 10, 2019

FDA Asked to Place Abexinostat, Possible Follicular Lymphoma Treatment, on Fast Track

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Xynomic Pharmaceuticals has filed a request with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asking that abexinostat, its lead therapeutic candidate for relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma, be given fast track designation. The ... 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