How We Support Patients
Novartis is dedicated to assisting health care professionals support their patients with on-demand and downloadable tools that can help with the oncology care experience, including topics such as oral and precision oncology, adherence, and much more.
Oral Oncology
During treatment with oral oncology medications, health care providers, patients, and their caregivers may benefit from educational and support resources specific to navigating care with oral oncology medications, which may be different from other forms of oncology treatment.
Featured Resources

Oral Oncology Medication Toolkit for Patients and Caregivers
This collection of tools for patients and caregivers includes an oral oncology fact sheet, a question guide for discussing oral oncology treatments with providers, and a practical therapy tracker.

Oral Oncology Medication Tools for Patients and Caregivers
This collection of tools for patients and caregivers includes a fact sheet, question guide, and practical therapy tracker.

Keeping Track of Your Therapy
This downloadable calendar can help patients and caregivers keep track of their therapeutic schedule.
Additional Resources

Understanding the Treatment Plan: Questions for Your Health Care Team
This resource provides examples of questions patients and caregivers may want to ask when meeting with their health care team, and helps them gather important information about medications.

Getting Your Specialty Medication From a Specialty Pharmacy
This guide educates patients on how to get specialty medication from a specialty pharmacy.

Oral Oncology Medication Therapy Management Flow Sheet
This flow sheet for HCPs helps them navigate key components of managing patient therapy with oral oncology medication.

Considerations to Help You Adhere to Treatment
This checklist for patients and caregivers regarding adherence to an oral oncology medication treatment plan.

Start Right and Stay on Track With Your Oral Cancer Medicine
This fact sheet helps patients and caregivers start right and stay on track with oral cancer medications.
Precision Oncology
Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach, precision oncology uses biomarkers to develop treatments that fit each unique patient, targeting the aberrant molecular pathways that cause cancer growth. Health care providers and patients who want to learn more about precision oncology's evolution, dynamics, and trends will find resources here.
Featured Resources

Precision Oncology 101 Patient Toolkit
This toolkit provides information around the importance of precision medicine in support of patients through their treatment journey.

Video 1: Understanding Targeted Therapies
This animated video explains precision medicine in oncology, helping patients understand targeted therapy, what cancer and mutations are, and how targeted therapy works to block cancer-causing effects.

Video 2: Understanding Biopsies
This animated video educates patients about biopsies and how they inform treatment, including a discussion of the difference between tumor and liquid biopsies.
Additional Resources

Precision Medicine in Oncology: Understanding Targeted Therapy and Biopsies
This brochure helps patients understand precision medicine in oncology, targeted therapy, and biopsies.

Precision Oncology Resources Print Flashcard
This hyperlinked digital flashcard provides an overview of available patient precision oncology resources along with QR codes to access the resources.

Precision Oncology Resources Flashcard PDF
This hyperlinked digital flashcard provides an overview of available patient precision oncology resources.
Recursos en Español
Los recursos aquí están diseñados para apoyar a los pacientes a comprender la medicina de precisión en oncología.

Oncología de precisión: ¿Qué son las terapias dirigidas?
Este video animado explica la medicina de precisión en oncología, y ayuda a los pacientes a entender la terapia dirigida, qué es el cáncer y las mutaciones, y cómo funciona la terapia dirigida para bloquear los efectos que causan el cáncer.

Oncología de precisión: ¿Qué son las biopsias?
Este video animado educa a los pacientes sobre las biopsias y cómo informan el tratamiento, e incluye una discusión sobre la diferencia entre la biopsia tumoral y líquida.

Medicina de precisión en oncología: ¿Qué son la terapia dirigida y las biopsias?
Este folleto ayuda a los pacientes a comprender la medicina de precisión en oncología, la terapia dirigida y las biopsias.
Patient Assistance
The single source for patient support throughout the Novartis Oncology experience.

Novartis Oncology Patient Support
A website focused on support for patients and caregivers. This site includes financial assistance options to help patients get access to the treatments they need, as well as personalized support programs, many of which offer one-on-one assistance.