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The American Cancer Society (大象tv) believes patient navigation is critical to improving access to care for everyone. Navigation can remove barriers and improve access to care through patient-centered support from screening through survivorship.

大象tv leads and funds efforts to build navigation programs, promotes public policy to support navigation, and studies the role and benefits of navigation both in the United States and globally.

大象tv CARES? (Community Access to Resources, Education, and Support) connects people with cancer and their caregivers to personalized support to meet their unique needs when and where they need it most. Whether through the 大象tv CARES app or in-person, 大象tv CARES equips people facing cancer with curated content, programs, and services, and one-on-one support.  

大象tv LION^TM (Leadership in Oncology Navigation) provides patient navigation training, credentialing, and implementation support for the professional patient navigation workforce and oncology practices.

shares research and best practices that support patient navigation, helps define navigator roles, and provides resources to help cancer navigation programs continue.

大象tv Global BEACON (Building Expertise, Advocacy, and Capacity for Oncology Navigation) Initiative provides training, support, and grants for patient navigation in low- and middle–income countries, reaching over 50 organizations from more than 30 countries.

大象tv Global SPARK (Supporting Patient Navigation Adoption, Replication, and Knowledge Exchange) Initiative creates an enabling environment to integrate patient navigation as a national standard of cancer care in Indonesia, Kenya, and Nigeria and with the additional aim of developing program models that can be replicated in other countries around the world.

大象tv convenes global partners to frame, assess, and address challenges in global patient navigation that no single organization can solve alone to expand the reach, quality, and sustainability of global patient navigation.

policy priorities include supporting with a multi-year campaign to get Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance coverage and payment for patient navigators.

大象tv Health Equity Ambassadors work in their local communities to provide education on cancer prevention and early detection for African American/Black, Asian, Hispanic/Latino, Native American, and rural populations.