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Surviving Beautifully Manifesto    

Fighting cancer is a battle and a lesson in courage. Surviving and thriving, for a lifetime, whether that lifetime is a month or a hundred years, is a feat worthy of pride and praise. It is more than just to bear and carry on; to live is to persevere, persist, remain and REVIVE.  To survive cancer is an incredible blessing.  To Survive Beautifully; to emerge unbroken; to love life and to love yourself; to be able to pay it forward by supporting other fighters is truly a triumph.
   We created Surviving Beautifully to help you with beauty issues during and after your fight. Looking and feeling your best during the fight is not something which should be considered frivolous or trivial: rather, it is vital to the process! We provide information on beauty through every step of the healing journey, from diagnosis, surgery, chemotherapy and radiation….and after. Backed by a team of medical doctors and aesthetic opinion leaders, authors and survivors, Surviving Beautifully is a comprehensive guide to aesthetic issues a you may face during every step of the healing journey.

Surviving Beautifully empowers you with knowledge, support and community to live each day your way. Beautifully.


About Us    

Lana & Victoria

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Lana Koifman is a 4-year breast cancer survivor and owner of Koifman CPA, an accounting firm in New York City. As a survivor who learned through trial and error about treating aesthetic concerns during her cancer treatments, she now counsels dozens of women who turn to her for information, guidance and most of all, inspiration and hope. She lives in Armonk, New York, with her husband and two daughters.

Victoria Tillotson is an author and educator. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and teaches at School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Like so many others, Victoria's life has been touched by cancer. She is passionate about sharing Lana’s message and became the prime researcher and writer for the project. She, too, lives in Armonk with her husband and son.

Lana's Story    

2/20/2012