A patient and her daughter in a calm conversation with a healthcare navigator

Human support for every next step

Cancer care can be complicated. You don’t have to navigate it alone.

Alpha Cancer Navigation helps patients and families understand the next step, coordinate referrals and appointments, and move through cancer care with greater clarity and confidence.

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What is Alpha?

A helping hand through the cancer-care journey.

A cancer diagnosis can create a maze of appointments, investigations, referrals, treatment decisions and practical challenges.

Alpha helps patients and families understand that journey and coordinate the next steps. We work alongside existing healthcare providers rather than replacing them—connecting the pieces of care so you can focus more on getting the care you need.

01

Understand

Know what the next step means.

02

Coordinate

Connect appointments, referrals and services.

03

Continue

Stay supported throughout the journey.

How it works

A clear path through a complex journey.

We meet you where you are, help clarify what comes next and support coordination across the stages of care.

Screening & Diagnosis

Understand screening results, diagnostic investigations and the next appropriate step.

Treatment Pathway Planning

Understand the care pathway and coordinate access to appropriate oncology specialists and treatment services.

Referral & Logistics

Coordinate referrals, appointments, investigations and movement between healthcare facilities where appropriate.

Supportive & Continuing Care

Navigate follow-up, nutrition, psychosocial needs, home-based support and continuity of care.

One journey. Many steps. One place to help coordinate them.

Our support

How Alpha can help

We help connect you with appropriate services and professionals. The support you receive is shaped around your journey.

Cancer Navigation

Personalised guidance through the cancer-care journey.

Referral Coordination

Help understanding and coordinating specialist referrals.

Appointment & Care Coordination

Help organising appointments and services that form part of your care.

Diagnostic Journey Support

Help understanding the sequence of investigations and where appropriate services may be accessed.

Treatment Journey Support

Help understanding the pathway between diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.

Nutrition & Supportive Care

Connections to appropriate nutrition and supportive-care professionals where needed.

Home-Based Care Coordination

Facilitated access to home-based supportive and palliative care services for appropriate patients.

Family & Caregiver Support

Help for families to understand the journey and identify practical next steps.

Why navigation matters

Cancer care is more than a diagnosis.

For patients and families, the practical journey can become as overwhelming as the clinical one.

  • Confusing referrals
  • Long journeys between facilities
  • Repeated appointments
  • Uncertainty about what happens next
  • Fragmented information
  • Delays between diagnosis and treatment
  • Financial and logistical challenges
  • Caregiver burden

The coordinating layer

Navigation helps connect the dots.

01Diagnosis
02Investigations
03Specialist
04Treatment
05Follow-up
06Support

Our goal is to help reduce avoidable confusion, fragmentation and delays in the patient’s journey.

You don’t need to have everything figured out today.

Cancer can make even simple decisions feel overwhelming.

You may not know which specialist to see, where to go next, what an investigation means, or how to coordinate everything that has suddenly become part of your life.

That’s where navigation can help.

Talk to Alpha

Clinical collaboration

For healthcare professionals

Alpha can support clinicians by helping coordinate aspects of a patient’s onward journey where appropriate—including referrals, appointments, follow-up, communication with families and supportive-care coordination.

Alpha navigation complements clinical care; it does not replace the treating healthcare professional.

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Connected care

Building a connected cancer-care ecosystem.

Alpha aims to connect patients with the right services at the right time while strengthening coordination across the cancer-care ecosystem.

Hospitals & oncology centresSpecialistsDiagnostic laboratoriesPharmaciesHome-care providersNutrition professionalsPsychosocial support providersInsurers & financing partnersTechnology partnersCommunity organisations
Partner With Alpha
Patient-centred
Clinically informed
Privacy-conscious
Care-coordination focused
Human support + digital tools

Contact Alpha

Not sure where to start?

Tell us what you need help with. Start with one conversation and we’ll help you understand the next step.

info@alphacancernavigation.org+254 135 683 102

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