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Getting Started / How NCONN can help

NCONN provides patients information, support, resources and the unique ability for patients, families, caregivers to link to professional competent Oncology Nurse Navigators in their communities nationally and soon globally. Nurse navigators can help patients make clinical sense, such as educating them about treatment options or holding their hands as they move through treatment. ONNs have the time to sit down with people, meeting one-on-one, empowering patients.

 

Comments by patients:

My navigator has been caring, empathetic and supportive in helping me to deal with my cancer, because I have neither family nor friends for support. I don't know what I would do without her. She has proven to be understanding. I have a better hopeful outlook from her regarding my disease. She should keep up the great work! It's helping me to keep up my battle. Thank you for helping me!

FEMALE CANCER PATIENT MARYLAND

As a nurse, my navigator was able to talk with me about the clinical recommendations; with her soft-spoken demeanor, she enabled me to approach my treatments with calm.

60 Y/O FEMALE BREAST CANCER PATIENT

My navigator helped me by setting the tone of optimism and by showing me I was not alone. She was clearly a patient advocate for me, and I knew she would help me though it, I’m amazed that patients went without nurse navigators in the past, and that some hospitals still don’t have them now.

LUNG CANCER PATIENT, CALIFORNIA