LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — One Arkansas woman who was diagnosed with a rare and stubborn form of ovarian cancer recently received a life-changing opportunity to benefit from a clinical trial at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute in Little Rock.
Ashley Foster is a mental health therapist and trainer for childcare providers. She was in graduate school in 2022 when she learned her devastating diagnosis in the form of ovarian cancer, called “Low Grade Serous Carcinoma”.
“Like most people, when I first got my diagnosis, the first thing is that you have a moment of panic, and then you have to decide, how am I going to be going forward? Because I’ve always lived my life as a positive person, and so that was where my mind went,” she described…