Helping You Navigate the Cancer Treatment Process
- Patient navigators can be an invaluable help during your cancer journey.
- They can guide patients though the treatment process, including setting up appointments, getting them financial, legal or other forms of support, setting up transportation, and more.
- A patient navigator can also help patients communicate with doctors, insurance companies, employers, lawyers, or others involved in medical care.
“Patient navigators can function differently at different hospitals,” Dr. Kathie-Ann Joseph, a surgical oncologist at NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, told SurvivorNet. “We have a really wonderful program at [NYU] where we used lay navigators, meaning they’re not nurses — although you can use nurses or social workers, that pretty much help newly diagnosed cancer patients through the continuum of care.”
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- Provide an assessment for next steps of care
- Assist with housing, transportation or immigration issues
- Help with financial issues
- Provide direction on legal issues
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