Dr Lincoln Tan

Dr Lincoln Tan is Director and Consultant Urologist practicing at Gleneagles Hospital. He is an accredited Robotic Surgeon at Mount Elizabeth Hospital. His subspecialty interests are in laparoscopic and robotic-assisted surgery, for the minimally invasive treatment of prostate, kidney and bladder cancers, and the holistic care of men with prostate cancer. Prior to leaving for private practice, Dr Tan was Director of Urologic Oncology at the National University Hospital (NUH) and National Cancer Institute of Singapore (NCIS).

Dr Lincoln Tan completed his advanced specialist urology training at the National University Hospital in 2011. He was awarded the College of ... See more [ + ]Surgeons Gold Medal from the Academy of Medicine Singapore, for being the top advanced urological trainee in his cohort. Dr Tan completed his fellowship in Urologic Oncology and Laparoscopic and Tele-Robotic Urologic Surgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 2013. Dr Tan’s subspecialty interest is in the care of men with prostate cancer. He is particularly interested in advanced prostate cancer diagnostics to reduce unnecessary prostate biopsies, and the performance of safer, more accurate prostate biopsies. Dr Tan was the principal investigator in the first local study to validate the use of the Prostate Health Index to better risk stratify men at risk of prostate cancer, to reduce subjecting men to unnecessary biopsies. He was also one of the clinical leads that introduced free hand office based transperineal prostate biopsies into Singapore.

Dr Lincoln Tan is a passionate advocate for Men’s Health and Prostate Cancer patients, and is the current Chairman of the Singapore Cancer Society (SCS) Prostate Cancer Survivorship Programmes Advisory Committee. Dr Tan strongly believes in the education of the next generation of doctors and urologists. He is an examiner of medical undergraduates as well as urological trainees. Dr Tan is privileged to be a faculty of the Asian Urological Surgery Training and Education Group (AUSTEG), a group of regional urologists who are passionate to share training opportunities in endourology and minimally invasive urological surgery to trainees in Asia.
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