Patient Journey App
The Breast Cancer Kent Patient Journey App provides you with information about diagnosis and treatment, written by your doctors & nursing team.
Choose to show all the content or just select the information you need. Important information about your treatment is shown on a timeline.
The interactive timeline sends you push notifications and reminders about the next steps in your patient journey, when you need them.
- Search Patient Journey in the App Store, Google Play
- Download the app
- Open the app and accept push notifications
- Search Breast Cancer Kent Patient App
- Select your treatment and press ‘Start’
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK, accounting for about 15% of all newly diagnosed cancers.
Over 53 000 new cases are diagnosed every year.
Most breast cancer cases are diagnosed at an early stage.
1 in 8 women and 1 in 870 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer during their lifetime.
Almost half of the cases occur in ladies aged 65 and over.
The incidence has slowly increased over the last decade.
Worldwide, more than 1.68 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2012.*