NCCS National Cancer Centre SIngapore Services

Clinical Specialities

NCCS offers outpatient clinical services focusing on these cancers:
Breast
Colorectal
Genetic Counselling & Risk Evaluation And Prevention
Geriatric Oncology
Gynaecology
Haematology
Head & Neck
Hepatobiliary
Lymphoma
Musculo-skeletal
Neuro-oncology
Naso-pharynx cancer (NPC)
Paediatrics
ReconstructiveNormal cells grow, divide and replace themselves in an orderly manner. Under normal conditions, your body constantly replaces cells that are lost either naturally or through injury. However, sometimes our body is unable to balance the rate of cell loss with new cell formation. Some cells multiply out of control, and they may divide too rapidly and grow without any order. This uncontrolled growth may grow into a lump called a tumour.
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Treating CancerThe treatment recommended depends on factors like age, health, type, origin, severity and stage of cancer. Sometimes a combination of treatments may be used to adequately control the cancer. With the advantages of our comprehensive and multidisciplinary care, we often combine different types of treatment to optimise results. Even when a surgery is successful, small cancer cells may still escape from the primary tumour through the blood and settle elsewhere in the other organs. These are “micro-metastases” that cannot be detected by conventional radiology scans. Post-surgery chemotherapy, which is injected into the veins and circulates within the body, is used to eradicate these cancer cells. While normal healthy cells are also destroyed in the process, this is not permanent. Healthy cells will recover if the proper schedule of chemotherapy administration is adhered to.