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Patient advocate battled breast cancer in December 2014
Patient Navigator
Jennifer Roberts’ job as a patient navigator is to help cancer patients maneuver through the process of cancer treatment. She also offers access to programs and services within the community and those available via the American Cancer Society in Gainesville. Little did she know, she would have to use them herself. In December 2014, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Now she is cancer-free and said she is able to do her job better. - photo by J.K. Devine
Jennifer Roberts thought she knew just about all there was to know about cancer. As a cancer care provider, she had held her patients’ hands through everything from scans to surgeries to chemotherapy to choosing a wig after hair loss. But in December 2014, she experienced something that forever changed her understanding of the disease.