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Clin Asst Prof Tan Wee Kiat Terence

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

Senior Consultant

National Cancer Centre Singapore

Specialty: Radiation Oncology

Sub-specialties: Head ＆ Neck, Uro-Oncology

Conditions Treated by this Doctor:
Bladder Cancer, Head and Neck Cancer, Kidney Cancer, Laryngeal Cancer, Larynx Cancer, Nasopharyngeal Cancer (Nose Cancer), Prostate Cancer, Testicular Cancer.

Clinical Appointments

Senior Consultant Division of Radiation Oncology National Cancer Centre Singapore
Chief Quality Officer National Cancer Centre Singapore
Head, Medical Affairs National Cancer Centre Singapore
Visiting Consultant NCCS Oncology Clinic @ CGH Changi General Hospital

Academic Appointments

Clinical Asst Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School

Profile

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.

Education

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

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

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

Awards

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

Research Interests

Publications

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.