Biography
“With breast cancer the most common cancer affecting Singaporean women, I am committed to offering the latest in surgical oncology to support breast cancer patients through this difficult time.”
Dr Germaine Xu graduated from National University of Singapore in 2003 and subsequently obtained her Masters of Medicine (Surgery). After undertaking advanced general surgical training and a fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Dr Xu went on to spend one year on a Ministry of Health (MOH) Human Manpower Development Program (HMDP) fellowship for oncoplastic breast surgery at the Nottingham Breast Unit under Dr Douglas MacMillan and Dr Tuabin Rasheed. She has also spent time at the Edinburgh Breast Unit under Professor Mike Dixon, the European Institute of Oncology (IEO), and the Paris Breast Centre with Dr Krishnan Clough.
Dr Xu played a significant role in growing the Breast Oncoplastic Unit at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital in her subsequent role as Breast Oncoplastic and General Surgeon, and is now Senior Consultant and Medical Director of One Surgical – Breast and General Surgery Clinic within Mount Alvernia Hospital. She was the first doctor in Singapore to perform two laparoscopic harvested omental flap partial breast reconstructions after lumpectomy for cancer in 2017.
Dr Xu accepts referrals for all cancer types, with a special clinical interest in the surgical treatment and reconstruction of pre-malignant breast diseases and breast cancers. This includes lumpectomy (including wire guided or radio-occult localisation of lesion), mastectomies (simple, skin or nipple sparing mastectomies), single or dual technique sentinel node biopsy (or even sentimag sentinel node biopsy), axillary clearances, and reconstructive options for partial or total breast excision such as lateral intercostal artery perforator (LICAP) flaps or anterior intercostal artery perforator flap, normal or extended latissimus dorsi flaps, implant reconstruction and lipofilling.