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Cancer Center Navigators
The Cancer Resource Center is available at every step of your care to offer in-depth information about your disease and treatments. At the Resource Center, you may meet our navigator, Victoria Brunjes, who can help you find what you need and guide you through your treatment.
If you go to our Breast Health Center, our Breast Health Liaison, Mary Beth Revak, will personally walk you through your experience: helping you make the necessary appointments, calling your referring physician, answering any questions you may have concerning breast health or test results, checking up with you after you've left the Center, and anything else she can do to make your experience easier.
Victoria Brunjes, RN, BSN, OCN has worked as an oncology nurse since 1998 and has been an Oncology Certified Nurse since 2001. She spent five years caring for patients on a hematology/oncology inpatient unit and now serves as coordinator of the Cancer Resource Center.
Our Breast Health Liaison, Mary Beth Revak RN, OCN has been a registered nurse since 1976, and has worked in areas as diverse as cardiothoracic intensive care and labor and delivery, and as a medical/surgical nurse with the Ft. Apache, Arizona, Indian Health Service. Her current position as Breast Health Liaison combines aspects of educator, navigator, and caregiver for women confronting breast abnormalities.
Spiritual Support
Our chaplain is available to listen to patient and family concerns, to offer help and encouragement, to provide counseling and information about coping strategies, as well as to provide spiritual support and ritual for those who wish them.
Chaplain at Martha Jefferson Hospital since 1993, Suzanne Hilton Smith provides care throughout the hospital and in the outpatient setting, offering counseling services and spiritual support for patients and families. She helps people utilize their spiritual beliefs in coping with illness, provides emotional support for grief and spiritual transitions, assists people in developing plans for future medical care, and provides comfort care.
Anxious about your first visit to the cancer center? Knowing what to expect can help.
Simple screening tests can help detect many cancers in the earliest stages, when they can be treated successfully.
You can be confident that the treatment you receive at Martha Jefferson Hospital is the best available.
