How can a Cancer Patient Navigator help you and your family?

Patients have told us that going through cancer treatment is often like trying to find their way through a maze. Cancer Patient Navigation is a service that helps guide cancer patients and their families through this maze.

If you do not have a CPN in your district, click on the links below for information that will help ease your cancer journey.

To help guide you through the system, a Navigator can:

Get answers to your questions and concerns.

• Click here to visit the Living With Cancer section of our website.

Work with your family doctor and cancer specialists to connect you to the cancer services you need during and after treatment.

• Click here to download “Cancer and Its Care and Treatment.” 

Help prepare you for your visit to the cancers centers in Halifax, Sydney or within your own health care district.

• Click here for information about receiving treatment at the Cape Breton Cancer Centre in Sydney.
• Click here for information about receiving treatment at the Capital Health Cancer Centre in Halifax.

Help you and your family understand cancer by providing reading material, videos, Internet sites and cancer information lines.

• Click here to read about the Oncology Interactive Education Series, a new learning tool available for patients. 
• Click here to read Drug Therapy for Cancer in Nova Scotia, a fact sheet developed by CCNS.  

Tell you about support groups and services in your community.

• Click here to read about drug assistance for cancer patients. 
• Click here to read about the Cancer Patient Family Network, a program of CCNS.  
• Click here to read about the support groups offered through the Capital Health Cancer Care Program. 

Call the Canadian Cancer Society Information Line at 1-888-939-3333 for more information about what’s available in your community.