# OnCo record patient-navigation (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/patient-navigation/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "patient-navigation" ;
  schema:name "Patient navigation in cancer care"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "patient navigator"@en, "nurse navigator"@en, "oncology nurse navigator"@en, "cancer navigator"@en, "lay navigator"@en, "peer navigator"@en ;
  schema:description "A patient navigator is a nurse, social worker or trained lay person who helps you through cancer care: booking tests, explaining the steps, sorting out money and transport, and connecting you with support. Many cancer centres have one; ask who yours is."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/patient-navigation/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-11-04"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://navigationroundtable.org/>, <https://www.aonnonline.org/> ;
  onco:tag "supportive", "carer" ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/collections/aonn-plus/>, <https://onco.cc/collections/national-navigation-roundtable/>, <https://onco.cc/collections/mcgrath-cancer-care-nurses/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/financial-navigation/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/oncology-nursing/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/medicare-principal-illness-navigation/> .