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2024/01/25
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Dr Wong Lea Choung

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Designations:

  • Senior Consultant, Department of Radiation Oncology, National University Cancer Institute, Singapore
  • Senior Consultant, Department of Oncology - Medical & Radiation, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore

Qualifications:

MBBS (Melb), Dip Pall Med (Wales), FRCR (Clin Onco, UK), FAMS

Specialties/Sub-specialties:

Radiation Oncology

Special Interests:

Head & Neck Cancers, Lymphoma/Myeloma, Skin Cancers, Sarcoma, Palliative Medicine, Quality of Life, Special Techniques (IMRT, IGRT, SRS, SRT, SBRT)

Biosketch

Dr Wong Lea Choung completed his undergraduate medical education at the University of Melbourne and received his postgraduate fellowship training in clinical oncology through Royal and Hong Kong Colleges of Radiologists. Dr Wong is currently practising as a Senior Consultant with the Department of Radiation Oncology at the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore.

Awards

  • Best Presentation Award in NHG Clinical Practice Improvement Programme (CPIP) project, 2005
  • Excellent Service Award (Silver), 2007
  • Excellent Service Award (Gold), 2008, 2009
  • Health Manpower Development Plan (Consultant) Award 2008 (By Ministry of Health Singapore and National Healthcare Group Singapore)
  • NUH Long Service Award (2015, 2025)

Journals & Publications

Journals

  1. Kristopher Dennis, Liying Zhang, Stephen Lutz, Yvette van der Linden, Angela van Baardwijk, Tanya Holt, Jean-Leon Lagrange, Palmira Foro Arnalot, Lea-Choung Wong, Ernesto Maranzano, Kam-Hung Wong, Rico Liu, Vassilios Vassiliou, Benjamin Corn, Carlo De Angelis, Lori Holden, C. Shun Wong and Edward Chow. International Radiation Oncology Trainee Decision Making in the management of radiotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. Supp Care Cancer 2013; 21(7):2041-48. Online publication DOI 10.1007/s00520-013-1759-x.
  2. Gokula Kumar Appalanaido, Earnest Arul, Wong Lea Choung. Meta-analysis Of Incidence of Early Lung Toxicity in 3-Dimensional Conformal Irradiation Of Breast Carcinomas. Radiation Oncology 2013, 8:268. doi:10.1186/1748-717X-8-268. (Open access Journal with BioMedical Central Ltd, Impact factor: 2.11)
  3. Tey J, Choo BA, Leong CN, Loy EY, Wong LC, Lim K, Lu JJ, Koh WY. “Clinical outcome of palliative radiotherapy for locally advanced symptomatic gastric cancer in the modern era.” Medicine (Baltimore) 2014 Nov; 93(22): e118. (doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000000118)
  4. David Chia, Jiade Lu, HuiLi Zheng, EnYun Loy, Keith Lim, ChengNang Leong, LeaChoung Wong, Gabriel Tan, Desiree Chen, Francis Ho, Jeremy Tey. Efficacy of palliative radiation therapy for symptomatic rectal cancer. Radiotherapy and Oncology 2016; 121:258-261.
  5. Chee, J., Loh, K.S., Tham, I, Ho, F., Wong, L.C., Tan, C.S., Goh, B.C. and Lim, C.M. Prognostic stratification of patients with metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma using a clinical and biochemical scoring system. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol (2017) 143: 2563-70. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00432-017-2496-1. (Impact factor: 3.503)
  6. Leong YH, Soon YY, Lee KM, Wong LC, Tham IWK and Ho FCH. Long-term outcomes after reirradiation in nasopharyngeal carcinoma with intensity-modulated radiotherapy: A meta-analysis. Head Neck 2018 Mar; 40(3): 622-631. doi: 10.1002/hed.24993. Epub 2017 Nov 11. (Impact Factor: 3.376)
  7. Teng Hwee Tan, Yu Yang Soon, Timothy Cheo, Francis Ho, Lea Choung Wong, Jeremy Tey and Ivan W.K. Tham. Induction chemotherapy for locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma treated with concurrent chemoradiation: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Radiother Oncol (2018) 129: 10-17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radonc.2018.02.027
  8. C Wujanto, S Vasoo, CL Nandini, CP Nolan, VYP Ng and LC Wong. Favourable outcome of AIDS-related multi-centric central nervous system Epstein-Barr virus-associated smooth muscle tumour with surgery and adjuvant radiation therapy: a case study and literature review. Int J STD & AIDS (2019) 30(6): 605-609. DOI: 10.1177/0956462418821569.
  9. Chrishanthi Rajasooriyar, Jeremy Tey, Lea Choung Wong, Michelle Poon, Rao Nandini, Ivan Tham, Balamurugan Vellayappan. A multi-institutional analysis of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) treated with consolidative radiotherapy and the impact of cell-of-origin on outcomes. Radiol Oncol 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/raon-2019-004
  10. Tseng M, Ho F, Leong YH, Wong LC, Tham IWK, Cheo T and Lee AWM. Emerging radiotherapy technologies and trends in nasopharyngeal cancer. Cancer Communications. 2020;40:395–405. https://doi.org/10.1002/cac2.12082
  11. Chee J, Liu X, Eu D, Loh T, Ho F, Wong LC, Tham I, Tan CS, Goh BC, Lim CM. Defining a cohort of oligometastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients with improved clinical outcomes. Head Neck. 2020 May;42(5):945-954. doi: 10.1002/hed.26061. Epub 2020 Jan 7. PMID: 31909854.
  12. Tan, Teng Hwee, Soon, Yu Yang, Cheo, Timothy, Wong, Lea Choung, Leong, Yiat Horng, Tey, Jeremy CS, Ho, Francis. Applying the ASCO and European Society for Medical Oncology Value Frameworks to Nasopharyngeal Cancer Treatments: Is Adding Induction Chemotherapy or Adjuvant Chemotherapy to Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy Worthwhile? JCO Oncology Practice 16(11): 755-+. https://doi.org/10.1200/OP.20.00413
  13. Lee SF, Vellayappan BA, Wong LC, Chiang CL, Chan SK, Wan EY, Wong IC, Lambert PC, Rachet B, Ng AK, Luque-Fernandez MA. Cardiovascular diseases among diffuse large B-cell lymphoma long-term survivors in Asia: a multistate model study. ESMO Open. 2022 Feb;7(1):100363. doi: 10.1016/j.esmoop.2021.100363. Epub 2022 Jan 10. PMID: 35026723; PMCID: PMC8760397.
  14. Lee SF, Yip PL, Wong A, Ng F, Koh V, Wong LC, Luk H, Ng CK, Lee FAS, Mamon HJ. Splenic irradiation contributes to grade ≥ 3 lymphopenia after adjuvant chemoradiation for stomach cancer. Clin Transl Radiat Oncol. 2022 Jul 21;36:83-90. doi: 10.1016/j.ctro.2022.07.007. PMID: 35909437; PMCID: PMC9334913.
  15. Lee SF, Yip PL, Vellayappan BA, Chee CE, Wong LC, Wan EY, Chan EW, Lee CF, Lee FA, Luque-Fernandez MA. Incident Cardiovascular Diseases Among Survivors of High-Risk Stage II-III Colorectal Cancer: A Cluster-Wide Cohort Study. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2022 Oct;20(10):1125-1133.e10. doi: 10.6004/jnccn.2022.7042. PMID: 36240841.
  16. Yip PL, Zheng H, Cheo T, Tan TH, Lee SF, Leong YH, Wong LC, Tey J, Ho F, Soon YY. Stroke Risk in Survivors of Head and Neck Cancer. JAMA Netw Open. 2024;7(2): e2354947. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.54947.

Books
  1. Wong LC (Main author & Editor). ‘生命的火炼 - 跨越癌关’ 第二版 (CCL Publications P/L, Singapore, Nov 2009).
  2. Wong LC. Hope beyond Cancer 1st English Edition (Armour Publishing, Singapore, August 2016).
  3. 黃禮聰, 癌症患者姑息關懷與生活質量的評估及建議 (第六章)。 陈廷忠 胡武杰 (主编), 撷思撫心:行走在神學與心理学之間, 恩道出版社(香港)有限公司,香港,2025.

Professional Memberships

  • Overseas Member, Medical Council of Hong Kong
  • Fellow, Royal College of Radiologists
  • Member, Specialist Registration with Singapore Medical Council
  • Fellow, Academy of Medicine Singapore
  • Member, Singapore Radiological Society
  • Member, European Society of Therapeutic Radiation Oncology

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  • Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
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  • Tengah General and Community Hospital
  • Jurong Community Hospital
  • National University Polyclinics
  • Jurong Medical Centre
  • National University Cancer Institute, Singapore
  • National University Heart Centre, Singapore
  • National University Centre for Oral Health, Singapore
  • NUHS Diagnostics
  • NUHS Pharmacy
  • NUHS Population Health and Community Care (PHCC)
  • NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
  • NUS Faculty of Dentistry
  • NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
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