Dr. Lise Alschuler is the co-author of The
Definitive Guide to Cancer: An Integrative Approach
to Prevention, Treatment and Healing, and Five To
Thrive: Your Cutting-Edge Cancer Prevention Plan.
She co-hosts a radio show, Five To Thrive Live!
on The Cancer Support Network www.w4CS.com
about living healthier lives in the face of cancer.
She currently practices with Naturopathic Specialists in Arizona, and calls Tucson, AZ and Chicago,
IL home. She serves as a director on both the
American Board of Naturopathic Oncology and
the Naturopathic Post-Graduation Association
and works as an independent consultant in the
area of practitioner and consumer health education. She also oversees the Quality Program for
one of the largest nutritional supplement distributors in the U.S.
Mary Ann Wasil, 49, is living very well
with stage 4 cancer since 2011 and is currently in
treatment. She’s the author of A Diary of Healing:
My Intense and Meaningful Life with Cancer. Mary
Ann says,“When people tell me there is ‘life after
cancer,’ I tell them there is life right in the middle
of cancer! I have never been more alive. I ‘choose
joy’ every day. It doesn’t mean I don’t experience
moments of sadness or even despair, it means that I
don’t pack my bags and move into those moments–
I feel it and move on, always toward joy.”
She started The Get In Touch Foundation
because she knows it’s important for girls to grow
up to become women who are comfortable and
familiar with their bodies, who know what their
normal, healthy breast tissue feels like.
“We want girls to know their bodies better
than their mothers ever did and more than
their grandmothers would ever approve of!”
— Mary Ann Wasil
Fall 2013
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