Dr Julie Liana Bte Hamzah

Dr Julie is a Consultant with the Department of Breast Surgery in both National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) and Singapore General Hospital (SGH). Dr Julie's practice covers benign breast conditions, the diagnosis and surgical treatment of symptomatic and screen detected breast cancer. Dr Julie was awarded the Human Manpower Development Plan fellowship in 2023 and she completed her Advanced Breast Surgery fellowship in Minimally invasive (endoscopic) breast surgery, at Kameda Medical Centre, Japan in 2025. In addition, she has a keen interest in lactational medicine, and is an International Board certified Lactation Consultant, practising in the first and only multi-disciplinary breastfeeding clinic (SGH) sited in a tertiary centre in Singapore.

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

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

• Breast cancer
• Lymphoedema
• Lactational Medicine

1. 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
2. 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
3. Hamzah JLB, Tan VKM. Fulminant gas‐forming breast abscess associated with synergistic Veillonella infection. Breast J. 2019;00:1–3
4. 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–
5. 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

1. 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