Cindy Lupica is a certified Cancer Coach from CWI and a cancer survivor of a rare placental pregnancy cancer called choriocarcinoma, which was a result of her youngest daughter's undeveloped twin. Cindy also earned her personal trainer certification from ACE and finished up her studies as a certified Cancer Exercise Specialist with CESI.
Since her cancer diagnosis in 2014, Cindy has been actively involved in the community, both local and national. Some of these include: being on the national speaker roster for NCSD, holding ELT positions for ACS Relay for Life, other cancer organization involvements such as NCCS (including recognized submissions for Stovell Award), Classic Pin-Ups for Cancer, and modeling for various cancer fundraisers and cancer-related project/events and publications, such as Luna Peak Foundation, and honored with Traveling Black Dress (2019) and Faces of Women (2021).
Her initial blogging started onWordPresswhich moved to the fully loaded, informative support website onWeebly,featuring the popular Survivor Series and linking to her Facebook support groups, and Facebook awareness page,also featuring the popular Survivor Series, allowing other survivors to finally be heard by many others outside the private groups.
Cindy's personal cancer case and her awareness advocacy work has been used in national cancer case studies, workshops & presentations such as Sheffield, specific to GTD/GTN, and has been used for student thesis. Her own in-depth research presentation was pre-approved for CEC by local Board of Nurses in 2017. Cindy's advocacy has opened new doors and created platforms for others to place GTD to their websites for other communities like ihadcancer.comand she as had various fundraisers for GTN/GTD research funds, specifically for Brigham & Women's Hospital. Cindy continues to participate in survivorship surveys to help organizations understand the potentials to survivorship
Cindy has also been published and honored with various titles (ie: ACS Superhero Award 2017, Best Dressed survivor 2020, Vintage Vixen survivor finalist 2022), while being featured in many projects, variety of newspapers & magazine articles (ie: CURE, Washington Post,Daily Press-one of a few), annual survivor calendars (Miss August 2021), varied global podcasts (ie: ZenOnco) and interviews (audio, video & transcript; ie: Brave Widow), some well known cancer & medical organizations, and church ministries, including being invited as a guest speaker.
Since 2021, Cindy holds a leadership role in the widow's ministry since the unexpected passing of her husband in 2018. Her interactive autobiography is entitled Widowed After Cancer & Financial Loss: How One Woman Overcame Her Losses. It is available on all major platforms, including Amazon e-book, full color version at Barnes & Noble website (see Autobiography Booktab).
