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Establishing Effective Patient Navigation Programs in Oncology: A Workshop

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Patient navigation programs are designed to promote access to timely cancer diagnosis and care by addressing barriers to cancer care, such as challenges with health literacy, language barriers affecting comprehension of diagnosis and treatment, lack of transportation, or insufficient insurance coverage. At the workshop, a broad range of experts—including clinicians, navigators, researchers, and patients—provided an overview of patient navigation, explored current models of patient navigation programs, identified lessons learned from implementation of patient navigation programs, and explored policy challenges and opportunities to improve patient navigation for patients with cancer.

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Description

An ad hoc committee will plan and host a 1.5-day public workshop that will examine the optimal conditions and components for a successful patient navigation program in oncology. The workshop will feature invited presentations and panel discussions on topics that may include:

  • stakeholder perspectives on the rationale for and appropriate role of navigation programs;
  • how patients access and utilize navigation programs;
  • how target population, setting, and resources influence program design;
  • models of navigation programs through the full spectrum of cancer care; and
  • potential ways to address knowledge gaps to improve the implementation and effectiveness of navigation programs.

The committee will develop the agenda for the workshop sessions, select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate the discussions. A proceedings of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.

Collaborators

Sponsors

American Association for Cancer Research

American Cancer Society

American College of Radiology

American Society of Clinical Oncology

American Society of Hematology

Association of American Cancer Institutes

Bristol Myers Squibb

Cancer Support Community

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

CEO Roundtable on Cancer

Flatiron Health

Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc.

LiveSTRONG Foundation

Merck

National Cancer Institute

National Comprehensive Cancer Network

National Institutes of Health

Novartis Oncology

Oncology Nursing Society

Pfizer Inc.

Staff

Sharyl Nass

Lead

Erin Balogh

Lead

Cyndi Trang

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