Cancer Screening Navigation FAQ

Cancer Screening Navigation

What is Cancer Screening Navigation?

Our Cancer Screening Navigation program is responsible for guiding patients through the cancer screening process including, but is not limited to, providing education about cancer screening and associated processes, scheduling screening appointments, linking patients with cancer screening programs such as Screening for Life, and eliminating barriers to screening.

This program also supports diagnostic testing and surveillance to ensure our patients get the testing and care they need.

Who helps our patients with their cancer screening?

A Nurse Cancer Screening Patient Navigator is responsible for helping our patients navigate their cancer screening, diagnostic testing, and/or surveillance. The Nurse Cancer Screening Patient Navigator may also work closely with the Healthcare Coordinators and the Enrollment Specialists.

How do our patients get screened for cancer if they don’t have insurance?

Westside is a proud partner with Screening for Life (SFL), providing payment for cancer screening tests to qualified Delaware adults. The program is a cooperative effort of the Delaware Division of Public Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

SFL is not an insurance, so it is important that we work with the Enrollment Specialists and the patients to get them insurance coverage as soon as possible.

What is covered under SFL?

SFL will pay for breast, cervical, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancer screening once the patient has been approved for SFL on a case-by-case basis, SFL may also pay for diagnostic testing.

Does it cost a patient to use SFL?

No, if the patient is approved there is no cost to them for the services covered by SFL.