About Integrative Cancer Review
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The mission of the Integrative Cancer Review is to promote safe, effective and accessible mind-body and integrative therapies and resources for people affected by cancer.
We serve people diagnosed with cancer, caregivers, health and wellness professionals and others who can benefit from the cutting edge research on evidence-based integrative cancer care therapies and ancient wisdom traditions.
Our contributors include leading professionals in cancer care, including yoga, meditation, Reiki, oncology massage, skincare, exercise, nutrition, reflexology, sound healing, and stress management. These practitioners provide useful information on these practices and how they should be modified for cancer care.
We also give voice to those affected by a cancer diagnosis, making their stories, experiences, and opinions a part of the future of integrative cancer care.
About Marianne Woods Cirone
The Integrative Cancer Review was founded by Marianne Woods Cirone, MS, MFA, CYT-500, E-RYT, a writer, yoga and wellness educator, and a passionate advocate for people affected by cancer. As the Wellness Coordinator at the LivingWell Cancer Resource Center, a division of Northwestern Medicine, from 2007-2015, Cirone managed thousands of wellness visits annually. There, she saw firsthand the benefits of these therapies for people affected by cancer and the need to share the vast research on integrative cancer care to inform and educate those who could benefit most.
Cirone has been teaching yoga for over twenty years, and exclusively for people affected by cancer for the past sixteen years. She has led cancer-focused training for 200- and 500-hour yoga teacher training programs. She received certifications from the Temple of Kriya Yoga, Moksha Yoga, Atma Yoga, yoga4cancer (y4c), and the Cancer Exercise Training Institute.
Cirone is the co-author, with Tricia Fiske, of From Alignment to Enlightenment: Using Props to Achieve Stability and Ease in Yoga Poses. She has published articles in YogaChicago, Yoga Therapy Today, Journal of Services Marketing, and served as Principal Investigator on a study on yoga, Reiki and massage for cancer patients published in the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing in 2016, and is a contributor to a forthcoming Handspring Publications textbook on Yoga Therapy and Cancer.
She is an active member of the Society for Integrative Oncology and has twice received their patient advocate scholarship; she serves as a member of their Communications Committee, Patient Advocate Task Force, and Yoga Special Interest Group.
As a graduate of the Rush University Health Systems Management master’s degree program, Cirone worked in hospital finance and healthcare consulting before specializing in cancer-focused wellness. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University in Los Angeles and she also leads writing workshops for people affected by cancer. She serves as the Senior Creative Nonfiction Editor for the Citron Review and also has a memoir in progress which includes the family legacy of secrets, adoption, mental health, and the power of healing.
Cirone founded the Empowerment Yoga for Breast Cancer Care program at the Prana Yoga Center in Geneva, Illinois and served as a Board Member for the Alyssa Alvin Foundation for Hope, dedicated to bringing music, art and hope to young cancer patients.
She is an avid reader, a practitioner of yoga, and an animal lover, and her favorite studies show the health benefits of yoga, writing, exercise, and coffee.
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