Advocacy Recognitions/Acknowledgments:
- IHC (ihadcancer.org) Ambassador
- GTD Research Project from Sheffield 2021-2024, Summary Report
- ”Best Dressed 2020″ for Classic Pin-ups for Cancer and “Ms. August 2021”
- FACES of Women by Sharon Wallace, Oncology R.N., and Photographer, and Black Traveling Dress
- American Cancer Society “Superhero Award 2017”
“TOP Blog” recognition, 2016, for survivorship with over 22.5k alone from the website, “21 Chemo Side Effects Everyone Should Know About.”
Find resourceful information in separate blogs related to choriocarcinoma cancer, chemo, side effects, and all in between. Connect with other fellow GTD/choriocarcinoma survivors as well. This cancer organization added Gestational Trophoblastic Disease to their database in 2015, per Cindy’s request, opening up the doors to many others on this pregnancy disease and its cancer.
May 2017 ACS Superhero Award
Given the title of Superhero with official ceremony at September American Cancer Society Relay. Honored for all her awareness and support advocacy for others facing any type of gestational trophoblastic disease, making significant breakthroughs.
This was Cindy’s second photoshoot following her husband’s sudden death, but deeper into grieving and also caring for her mother-in-law. Grief shows with the stress of sleepless nights, endless tears thus leading to puffy eyes, lines, wrinkles and often forced smiles through the fog of widowhood.
Luna Peak Foundation
photoshoot for their book
Aug. 26, 2018 click here or here
*See Blog on this in the BLOGS section
PIN-UP 2021 Calendar/Photo Shoot 2020
A fun invite to be part of the 2021 calendar with other survivors to benefit cancer charity that turned into a contest with the new virus cancelling all scheduled photoshoots, leaving each model to improvise their own shoot, dress, hair/makeup for submission. Here are just a few of the many taken photos with the required filters to participate in this classic pin-ups for cancer event.
Celebrating NCSD 2020 & 2021

Top:
Celebrating 6th year cancerversary
Right:
Celebrating 7th year cancerversary and book release; photo made Coping magazine 2021 edition. See other cancer survivors at their link
https://copingmag.com/national-cancer-survivors-day-2021/?fbclid=IwAR0MV_MjILcKRpa-oyNFw5p5RIER12Gi2yh_S_CFdL0ttsHDCwtXAukNZxo
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