Breast Cancer Patient Navigation

Guiding patients on their journey
Newly-diagnosed cancer patients confront an onslaught of worries and questions as they cope with their diagnoses. Those with breast cancer often face additional concerns about body image, relationships and treatment choices. More than anything, they want answers.
Enter Kansas City Cancer Center’s new breast cancer patient navigation program, providing patients with the information they need to make the critical decisions ahead. The program also offers patients support and guidance in the face of the uncertainty, stress and confusion that invariably accompany a cancer diagnosis. Part medical reference, part treatment facilitator and part support group, breast cancer patient navigation is 100% focused on walking with patients on their journeys through cancer – and beyond.

Smoothing the bumps in the road
As your partner, our goals are to streamline patient care, expedite treatment, and make the system extremely user-friendly for physicians and patients, alike.

  • Our community-based model, using the full range of KCCC resources, helps identify the best treatment options available
  • Patients are better prepared to participate in the planning of their treatment
  • Referral time, from primary care physician to specialist, is expedited
  • Time from referral to date of appointment with specialist is reduced
  • Added support for specialist referral is provided
  • The flow of information to primary care physicians, specialists and patients is improved
  • From diagnosis through treatment and survivorship, nurse navigator support is available, 24/7

Meet Your Certified Breast Cancer Patient Navigator

ColleenJohnson

Colleen Johnson, RN, NP, CBPN-C
Clinical Director of Breast Health Services

Colleen has been a women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner for 27 years, and has specialized in breast disease for 20 years. She has been instrumental in the development of many national and local programs designed to provide the highest quality of breast health care for women. Colleen serves on the Board of Trustees for the National Consortium of Breast Centers, and is one of the founding members of a Navigation Certification Program through the NCBC. Colleen has received numerous awards throughout her career for her dedication and commitment to women in promoting quality breast health care, including the 2005 “BMW Local Hero” award presented by the Susan G. Komen Foundation and the 2007 National Yoplait Champion designation.

Colleen Johnson
9200 Indian Creek Parkway, Bldg. 9, Suite 300
Overland Park, KS 66210
Phone 913.541.4678
Fax 913.541.4692
colleen.johnson@usoncology.com