Clin Asst Prof Tan Wee Kiat Terence

​Dr Tan is a Senior Consultant at The National Cancer Centre Singapore’s Division of Radiation Oncology. He is a graduate from the National University of Singapore and a Fellow of the Royal College of radiologist and a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine Singapore. Besides his local training, his clinical experience also comes from having had fellowships at the Mt Vernon Cancer Centre (UK), the Dr Daniel den Hoed Cancer Centre (Rotterdam), and the Gustav Roussy Institute (Paris).

Dr Tan’s subspecialty interests are in Head & Neck and Uro- Oncology. He co-chair’s two of NCCS’ Cancer Service Line Development groups (Head & Neck, and Urology), and he is a Visiting Consultant to the Urology Departments in Singapore General Hospital and Changi General Hospital.

Dr Tan is involved in clinical trials in Head & Neck, and in particular, Nasopharyngeal Cancers. Together with colleagues from the SGH Urology department, he pioneered the practice of Low Dose Rate Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer in Singapore. High Dose Rate Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer has since been added to the armamentarium of treatment options.

Dr Tan is a Clinical Lecturer at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and also teaches at the Nanyang Polytechnic. He is a member of the Radiation Oncology Residents Advisory Committee, and a member of the SingHealth Practice Based Learning and Improvement Standing Committee.

Dr Tan concurrently holds the appointments:  Head of Medical Affairs and also Chief Quality Officer in NCCS in which capacity he oversees quality and safety, service quality, risk management, licensing, credentialing and privileging.

​MBBS, FRCR (Clinical Oncology)(UK), FAMS

• ​Singapore Radiological Society, Member since 1989. Hon. Auditor 1998. 
• Singapore Society of Oncology, Member since 1989. Treasurer 1999 & 2000. Organising chairman, ASM-AGM 2001.
• Singapore General Hospital 150th Anniversary Celebrations, 1996. Celebrations for cancer survivors, Organising Committee, Secretary. 
• UICC Workshop on Nasopharyngeal Cancer, 1998. Organising Committee, Chairman i/c Conference Facilities.
• Concensus Conference on Uro-oncology, Singapore 1999. Organising committee 
• Hepatobiliary subcommitee, National Cancer Centre 
• Library committee, National Cancer Centre 
• Head & neck data collection committee, National Cancer Centre 
• Editorial Board, SingHealth Newsletter
• Member, Advisory Committee on salt-cured and smoked food
• Member, AM-SRS PET-CT guidelines sub-committee 
• Member, Infection Control Committee, National Cancer Centre

• ​Public Service Commission ‘Merit Bursary’ for Medicine, 1980
• HMDP Fellowship for Radiotherapy (to attend The Royal College of Radiologists and to train under Professor Stanley Dische at the Mount Vernon Hospital Centre for Cancer Treatment, UK) September 1991 – October 1993, 1991
• HMDP Fellowship in Radiation Oncology with special emphasis in Head and Neck, and Radiosurgery:
  Dept of Radiation Oncology, Dr Daniel den Hoed Cancer Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands (3rd March – 5th May 1998)
  Leksell Gamma Knife Course, Elekta Instruments, Stockholm, Sweden and Graz University Hospital, Austria (8th June – 19th June 1998)
  Dept de Radiotherapie, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif Cedex, France (22nd June – 3rd September 1998), 1997
• Best Poster (Varian Prize) ESTRO ’98, Edinburgh, 1998
• Public Service Commission ‘Merit Bursary’ for Medicine, 1980
• HMDP Fellowship for Radiotherapy (to attend The Royal College of Radiologists and to train under Professor Stanley Dische at the Mount Vernon Hospital Centre for Cancer Treatment, UK) September 1991 – October 1993, 1991
• HMDP Fellowship in Radiation Oncology with special emphasis in Head and Neck, and Radiosurgery:
  Dept of Radiation Oncology, Dr Daniel den Hoed Cancer Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands (3rd March – 5th May 1998)
  Leksell Gamma Knife Course, Elekta Instruments, Stockholm, Sweden and Graz University Hospital, Austria (8th June – 19th June 1998)
  Dept de Radiotherapie, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif Cedex, France (22nd June – 3rd September 1998), 1997
• Best Poster (Varian Prize) ESTRO ’98, Edinburgh, 1998

• ​Testicular Seminoma - The Results of Treatment by Radiotherapy in Singapore
  T W K Tan, K M Lee, E J Chua
  Annals, Academy of Singapore. Vol 25 No. 3 May 1996
• Localised Nodal Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma - A Study of 42 Cases Treated by Radiotherapy.
  K M Lee, T W K Tan, K W Fong, E J Chua
  Annals, Academy of Singapore. Vol 25 No. 3 May 1996
• Patient Profile and Survival in 270 Computed Tomography-staged Patients with Nasopharyngeal Cancer Treated at the Singapore General Hospital.
  K W Fong, E J Chua, E T Chua, H S Khoo-Tan, K M Lee, K S Lee, V K Sethi, B C Tan, T W K Tan, J Wee, T L Yang
  Annals, Academy of Singapore. Vol 25 No. 3 May 1996
• Phase II Trial of combined chemoradiotherapy in patients with unresectable stage III non-small cell lung cancer.
  E H Tan, J Wee, P T Ang, K W Fong, T Tan, E J Chua, K S Lee, S S Leong, P Eng, A Hsu, Y K Tan, Y Y Ong
  Abstracts 8th World Conference on Lung Cancer, 10 - 16 Aug 1997, Dublin, Ireland.
  Lung Cancer Vol 18 (1997) p73.
• Conformal Radiotherapy for prostate cancer
  HYH Lau, TL Yang, T Tan, P Salleh, TJ Wong, EJ Chua
  SGH Proceedings, vol 8 No 1, 1999: 63-67.
• Phase II trial of a paclitaxel and carboplatin combination in Asian patients with metastatic carcinoma
  EH Tan, KS Khoo, J Wee, KW Fong, KS Lee, KM Lee, ET Chua, T Tan, HS Khoo-Tan, TL Yang, E Au, M Tao, YK Ong, E J Chua
  Annals of Oncology 10: 235-237, 1999.
• Concurrent chemoradiotherapy followed by adjuvant chemotherapy in Asian patients wih nasopharyngeal carcinoma: toxicities and preliminary results
  EH Tan, ET Chua, J Wee, T Tan, KW Fong, PT Ang, KS Lee, KM Lee, HS Khoo-Tan, SS Leong, YK Ong, KF Foo, VK Sethi, EJ Chua
  Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 45(3), 1999: 597-601.
  Induction chemotherapy followed by concurrent chemoradiotherapy in stage III unresectable non-small cell lung cancer
  EH Tan, J Wee, PT Ang, KW Fong, SS Leong, KS Khoo, T Tan, KS Lee, P Eng, A Hsu, YK Tan, EJ Chua, YY Ong
  Accepted for publication, Acta Oncologica, 1999.
• Non-metastatic nasopharyngeal cancer –our radiotherapy treatment results
  T Tan,  D Heng, J Wee, KW Fong, LG Lian, VK Sethi, ET Chua, TL Yang, HS Khoo-Tan, KS Lee, KMun Lee, EJ Chua,
  SGH Proceedings, vol 8, No 3, 1999: 223-226.
• A simplified CT-based definition of the lymph node levels in the node negative neck
  OB Wijers, PC Levendag, T Tan, EB van Dieren, J van Sornsen de Koste, H van der Est, S Senan, PJCM Novak
  Radiotherapy & Oncology 1999; 52: 35-42.