Dr Julie Liana Bte Hamzah

MBBS, MRCS (Edin), MMed (Surg), FRCS (Edin), IBCLC

Consultant

Singapore General Hospital

Specialty: General Surgery, Surgery ＆ Surgical Oncology

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About

Education and Training

Awards

Research Interests

Publications

Conditions Treated By This Doctor

Breast Cancer

Clinical Interests

Breast Surgery, General Surgery

Clinical Appointments

Consultant

SingHealth Duke-NUS Breast Centre

Consultant

Breast Surgery

Consultant

Division of Surgery ＆ Surgical Oncology

About

Dr Julie is a Consultant with the Department of Breast Surgery in both National Cancer Centre Singapore and Singapore General Hospital. Dr Julie's practice covers benign breast conditions, the diagnosis and surgical treatment of symptomatic and screen detected breast cancer. In addition, she has a keen interest in lactational medicine, and is an International Board certified Lactation Consultant. Dr Julie has managed patients who may suffer complications of breastfeeding, and she hopes to be able to help this group of patients as a lactation consultant. In addition, Dr Julie is leading a multi-disciplinary team in a quality improvement project to streamline treatment for lymphoedema, a complication of axillary dissection. This has been awarded the Surgery ACP grant in 2018.

Education and Training

Master of Medicine (Surgery), 2017
MRCS (Intercollegiate), 2010
Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), 2009
GCE A Levels, 2004
GCE O Levels, 2002

Awards

KBCF International Scholarship, Global Breast Cancer Conference 2018
Best Resident (Singhealth), 2011

Research Interests

Breast cancer
Lymphoedema
Lactational Medicine

Publications

Tan WJ, Hamzah JL, Acharyya S, Foo JF, Lim KH, Tan IBH, Tang CL, Chew MH, Evaluation of Long-Term Outcomes of Microsatellite Instability Status in an Asian Cohort of Sporadic Colorectal Cancers, J Gastrointest Canc, 27 May 2017
Gambre AS, Tan PH, Hamzah JLB, Leong LCH. Rare case of bilateral male breast myofibroblastomas with radio‐pathological correlation. Wiley The Breast Journal 2018 Oct; DOI: 10.1111/tbj.13405
Hamzah JLB, Tan VKM. Fulminant gas‐forming breast abscess associated with synergistic Veillonella infection. Breast J. 2019;00:1–3
Hamzah JLB, Ong KW, Tan YCB. Isolated invasive ductal carcinoma of the nipple‐areolar complex: A rare occurrence yet to be reported in current literature Breast J. 2019;00:1–
J L Hamzah, B Tan, V Tan, P Madhukumar, SZ Lim, YR Sim, W S Yong, Z J Lee, K W Ong, A pilot study comparing Sentimag/Sienna versus standard modality for sentinel lymph node identification in patients with breast cancer. The Breast Journal Oct 2019 DOI: 10.1111/tbj.13660

Research

Establishing a clinical pathway for the identification and treatment of patients with lymphoedema post axillary dissection as part of breast cancer surgery - Surgery ACP Quality improvement Project grant $5000