Earlier this month, we unveiled Navicare — our Breast Cancer Patient Navigation Programme. This time, we reached out to the Navicare team to share more about how this programme is helping patients and staff alike in our various IOC centres.

As part of breast cancer awareness month, discover how we are guiding breast cancer patients and training our staff to improve their recovery journey.

Caring for breast cancer patients in Malaysia comes with unique challenges not seen by many other countries. With so many different races and religions living under one flag, how do nurses provide care in a compassionate and sensitive manner?

Sr Marcela, our breast care nurse at Beacon Hospital, Malaysia, explains how she approaches this challenge as part of breast cancer awareness month.

Did you know that we run the only all-female breast surgery centre in Singapore? Solis Breast Care & Surgery Centre empowers women every day with the help of Luma Women’s Imaging Centre.

Discover what the Solis – Luma partnership is like this breast cancer awareness month.

The arrival of October raises the curtain for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This time, we are proud to unveil Navicare, our Breast Cancer Patient Navigation Programme.

For us at IOC, we stand beside breast cancer patients by empowering them and embracing their diversity. Through Navicare, we achieve this by making the treatment journey easier to navigate for all women.

Learn more about Navicare here: https://bit.ly/3PYa50w

At IOC, our Clinical Practice Partnership (CPP) is a model where doctors are also the co-owners of their centres. CPP empowers our doctors, giving them the right to make key decisions and influence their centres together with the support of professional managers and executives.

To date (January 2023), Our IOC centre in Malaysia, Beacon Hospital channelled more than RM55,120,870.00 to help ease the burden of many cancer patients. This is amongst the initiatives the hospital has done to close the care gap. You can learn all about them in this video.

IOC launched its first-ever breast and imaging centres in Singapore — Solis and Luma. The team and their efforts have grown tremendously since then. Watch this video to understand how these endeavours have been closing the care gap in Singapore.

From obtaining its official license to offer radiotherapy services to launching a new breast centre, discover how our centre in Vietnam, Hung Viet Cancer Hospital is closing the care gap in the country.

Adi Husada Cancer Center, located in Indonesia, has been making a difference in cancer care in the country. AHCC introduced Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) service in 2022 and has been providing free mammograms for over 300 women in Surabaya. Learn how they have been closing the care gap in this video.

In the Philippines, CLIOC has been making strides towards closing the care gap for patients. The Centre has expanded its pain and palliative services and is in the process of obtaining a new radiotherapy machine. See what they have done in this video.

IOC’s very first ambulatory cancer centre in Hong Kong started in 2015. Today, the centre has grown significantly. From offering free low dose CT (LDCT) lung cancer screening tests to the public to providing teleconsultation services to patients from Mainland China, find out how HKIOC has been closing the care gap.

Looking back at the figures in 2022, we are proud to have made cancer treatment accessible to so many people across the Asia Pacific region.

Thank you to our doctors and healthcare team.

Pharmacists are far more han just dispensing drugs on prescriptions. They are a trusted source of knowledge and advice, not only for patients but for many healthcare professionals.

In conjunction with World Pharmacists Day which is celebrated on 25 September every year, we would like to thank all our pharmacists in IOC for stepping up and going the extra mile to make our patients’ treatment journey better.

Hung Viet Cancer Hospital, Hanoi became part of IOC’s regional network in 2018.

Vu Phuong Tran is IOC’s Country Lead for Vietnam and he leads the healthcare investments and marketing for IOC in Vietnam.

Listen to him share how the hospital and doctors have benefited from being part of IOC’s network and collaborative culture via the Clinical Practice Partnership (CPP) and find out what has changed ever since.

2021 has been a challenging year, and it would not have been possible for us to make it through without our staff going above and beyond.

With many significant milestones for us throughout the region, we wish to thank our staff as well as our patients and their families for their patience and understanding during these trying times.

Listen to the story of Eng Aik Meng featured in Straits Times Singapore on why he has the drive to make a difference through specialty healthcare in Asia due to his own’s mother’s battle with cancer.

Eng Aik Meng is Chairman of Integrated Oncology Centres (IOC) and co-founder of TE Asia Healthcare Partners and Group CEO of TE Healthcare Advisory Pte Ltd, the group behind IOC’s establishment.

This October, IOC unites with all our centres across the region to recognise women and their caregivers who are battling with breast cancer. Join us as we celebrate each and every women’s unique story and milestone.

With the Covid-19 pandemic affecting everyone across the region, IOC has stepped up to ensure our patient’s safety. IOC’s CEO, Phoebe Ho and IOC’s Chairman of Medical Council, Professor Poon share the different safety precautions taken in IOC centres to protect patients from the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.

Cancer patients are vulnerable to COVID-19, and IOC will continuously remain responsive to the needs of our patients and employees.

Celebrating Cancer Survivors Month is a way that IOC offers support to cancer patients and their caregivers in their fight against cancer. In the month of June, we also hope to spread awareness of the possibilities of survivorship with quality cancer treatment.

In this video, hear what our Phoebe Ho, CEO, IOC has to say about survivorship and celebrating life.

On this day, 4 February 2021, hundreds of activities and events are taking place around the world in support of World Cancer Day, a movement created in year 2000 to raise cancer awareness.

This year’s World Cancer Day’s theme, ‘I Am and I Will’, is all about us and our commitment to act. We believe in working together to reimagine a world where millions of preventable cancer deaths are saved. We aim at improving access to life-saving cancer treatment and care in Asia.

Watch the video as our CEO, Ms Phoebe Ho shares her and IOC’s commitment to bringing life-saving integrated cancer treatment and care to the people in Asia.

IOC continues to encourage all women to check their breast health regularly and for those above 40 or with a family history of cancer to go for their yearly mammogram. Our network of oncology centres provide seamless care, from breast cancer screening right up to post-cancer care, all under one roof.

In view of the Covid-19 pandemic, IOC wishes to assure all patients and their family members that our centres are equipped with safety measures. Patients can continue to come to all IOC centres for their cancer treatment.

IOC held its brand launch across four countries in October 2019. Watch this video to hear our leaders share what the IOC brand is all about and what our exciting mission is.