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LAOP 2021 · No. 07
Kawana Williams
If you all really do care, loosen up those inclusion criteria a lot, because you're not going to get the proper information that you need.
Kawana Williams
Kawana Williams was diagnosed with stage 1C ovarian cancer at 23 while finishing her studies at Fisk University. She learned after surgery how many organs had been removed, was never asked whether she wanted chemotherapy, and was offered no mental health support when treatment ended. As an African American woman with a cancer rarely seen in her demographic, she believes nobody looked closer. She now challenges researchers to loosen clinical trial inclusion criteria so patients like her are counted.
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