GS Hong Surgical Care-Consultant Surgeon, Dr Hong Ga Sze

About Dr Hong Ga Sze >

Dr Hong Ga Sze was born in Singapore in 1959. He was educated in the Raffles Institution, a premier Singapore secondary school. He went on to study Medicine at the National University of Singapore from which he graduated with Bachelors in Medicine and Surgery in 1983. His surgical training culminated in him becoming a member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Scotland in 1988 and a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore in 1998.

Dr Hong Ga Sze had by then acquired an interest in surgical oncology, i.e. cancer surgery. Under the Human Manpower Development Plan awarded by the Singapore Government, Dr Hong underwent post-graduate training in surgical oncology in the United Kingdom from 1991 to 1993. He worked as a Senior Registrar in the Royal Marsden Hospital, London and Christie Hospital, Manchester. Both are top UK cancer hospitals. While in London, he advanced his knowledge and research interests in cancer genetics by obtaining a Master of Science in Human Molecular Genetics from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, St Mary’s Hospital, University of London in 1992.

Dr Hong was appointed a Surgical Consultant in the Singapore General Hospital in 1995 and Senior Surgical Consultant in 1999. He became the first full time surgeon of the National Cancer Centre, Singapore in 1999. He helped develop the National Cancer Centre by holding the posts of Clinical Co-ordinator as well as the founding Head of the Department of Cancer Informatics.

Dr Hong left for private practice at the Mt Elizabeth Medical Centre in 2001. Due to his interests in teaching and research he accepted an appointment as Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Surgery National University Hospital, National University of Singapore in 2001. Since 2005 Dr Hong is the Head of the KK Breast Unit at the Kandang Kerbau Women’s and Children’s Hospital. The Unit was established in June 2005 and is the only Department dedicated to breast care in Singapore. In 2010, Dr Hong is appointed an Attending Faculty, General Surgery, Residency Program, SingHealth Academy. Dr Hong is a member of the Inquiry Committee Panel and Disciplinary Committee Panel, Singapore Supreme Court since 1 December 2003.

The Surgeon

Dr Hong Ga Sze is a well-trained and dedicated General Surgeon. His passion is cancer surgery. His expertise includes the management of breast disorders and breast cancer as well as Head & Neck tumours including thyroid and parotid tumours.

Presentations and Publications >

CT Scan in blunt abdominal trauma : Initial Experience.
GS Hong, CL Chua.
23rd Combined Surgical Meeting, November 1990.
Parotid Neoplasm : The Importance of adenolymphoma.
GS Hong,KC Soo. 24th Annual Combined Surgical Meeting, November 1990.
Prospective Audit of Bleeding Gastric Ulcers.
GS Hong,R Nambiar.
2nd Scientific Meeting, Singapore General Hospital,February 1990.
Oropharyngeal Reconstruction after Ablation of Head and Neck Cancer, Annual Scientific Congress, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons 1995
Bacterial and Myocotic Otological Infection in Singapore.
VTK Chow,B Ho,GS Hong,TC Liu.
Journal of Hygiene,Cambridge 1986, Oct 97 (2) 385-92
Prevalence of Human Papillomavirus Types 11 and 16 in Foreskin of Normal Males.
V Chow,GS Hong,Hans-Ulrich Bernard.
Acta Medica Nagasaki.
Dieulafoy's Disease : The Cause of Massive Upper Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage in Two Asian Women.
GS Hong,J Murugasu,HK Ang,A Thomas.
Ann Acad of Medicine Singapore 1991, 20:784-788.
Massive Lower Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage from a Splenic Artery Psuedoaneurysm.
GS Hong,CY Wong,R Nambiar.
Br J Surg 1992, 79:174.
Oestrogen Receptors in Well Differentiated Thyroid Cancers. GS Hong, ITY Sng, KC Soo. Ann Acad of Medicine Singapore 1991, 20:767-769.
Primary Reconstruction After Chest Wall Resection in Breast Cancer. GS Hong, KC Soo. Ann Acad of Medicine Singapore 1993, 22 (2): 247-250.
A Study of the Molecular Genetics of Desmoid Tumours Deep Fibromatosis). GS Hong in collaboration with The Haddow Laboratories, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton. Thesis for the Msc course, Human Molecular Genetics, St Mary's Hospital, London.
Flexible Endoscopic Tracheo-esophageal Puncture Under Local Anaesthetic, Hong GS, John AB, Theobald D, Soo KC The Journal of Laryngology and Otology November 1995 109: 1077 - 1079.
Primary Reconstruction after Extensive Chest Wall Resection, Fui AC, Hong GS, Ng EH, Soo KC Aust N Z J Surg 68(9): 655 : 9 1998 Sep
Management of intraparotid facial nerve schwannomas, Chong KW, Chung YF, Hong GS, Khoo ML et al Aust N Z J Surg. 70(10): 732-4 Oct 2000.
Spenic angiosarcoma : an unusual cause of bleeding gastrointestinal tract, Chung YF, Busmanis I, Hong GS, Soo KC, Singapore Medical Journal 40(2): 106-8 Feb 1999.
Epidemiology of Warthin’s Tumour of the parotid gland in an Asian population, GS Hong, Br J Surg. 86(5): 661-4 May 1999.
Genotoxicity of human breast milk from different countries, Martin FL, Cole KJ, Weaver G, Hong GS, et al, Mutagenesis 2001 Sep 16 (5);401-6
A case of alpha-fetoprotein producing gastric cancer, Foo KF, Tan CK, Wong KK, Hong GS, Ngan BY, ongHoAnn Acad Med Singapore, 2001 Jan; 30:58-61
Well differentitated thyroid carcinoma: factors predicting recurrence and survival, Lim LH, Soo KC, Chong YK, Gao F, Hong GS, Lim TH, Singapore Med J 2002 Sep;43(9):457-62
Founder mutation in the BRCA1 gene in Malay breast cancer patients in Singapore, Lee AS, Ho GH, Oh PC, Balram C, Ooi LL, Lim DT, Wong CY, Hong GS, Hum Mutat 2003Aug;22 (2):178
A molecular signature of the Nottingham prognostic index in breast cancer, Yu K, Lee CH, Tan PH, Hong GS, Wee SB, Tan P, Cancer Res 2004 May 1;64(9) 2962-8
MRSA breast abscesses in postpartum women, Chuwa E, Wong CM, Tan YY, Hong GS, Asian J Surg 2009 Jan;32(1):55-8
Faculty member, IAEA Workshop on Radionuclide Breast Imaging, Singapore 5-6 August 2000. Lectures delivered: Diagnostic problems in management of breast cancer, Sentinel node localisation and biopsy: SGH experience, The intra-operative gamma probe: surgical techniques.
Faculty member, 5th Annual Scientific Meeting & Annual Scientific Meeting, Malaysian Association of Plastic, Aesthetic and Craniomaxillofacialo Surgeons, 15-17 March 2002. Lectures delivered:Skin sparing mastectomy and immediate breast reconstruction, Chest wall resection and reconstruction in breast cancer.