SINGAPORE – This year, Parkway Cancer Centre (PCC) celebrates its 20th anniversary of reshaping cancer care around the needs of patients and their families.
To mark this two-decade milestone, the center has introduced three renewed core pillars—Trust, Care, and Hope—to guide its next chapter of clinical excellence and holistic healing.
When PCC was founded in 2006, cancer care in Singapore was largely fragmented, which required patients to move from one specialist to another throughout their treatment journey.
Its founding physicians — Drs. Ang Peng Tiam, Khoo Kei Siong, Teo Cheng Peng and Lim Hong Liang —collaborated to establish a multidisciplinary, one-stop facility focused entirely on providing highly coordinated and individualized cancer care treatment to each patient.
In a joint reflection, the founding team said “When we started two decades ago, we didn’t have every answer mapped out, but we were guided by a simple belief: to care for every patient as they would their own family.”
“The last two decades have seen major advances in cancer treatment, leading to higher cure rates, enhanced disease control, and improved quality of life. With ongoing research, I am confident that we shall continue to see even better outcomes in the years ahead,” commented Dr Ang Peng Tiam, Medical Director.
A Vision Anchored in Trust, Care, and Hope
The introduction of its three core values serves as both a reflection of its history and a promise for tomorrow:
- Trust: Walking alongside patients to bring clarity, stability, and world-class medical expertise when life feels most uncertain. Cancer changes life but not our commitment to you.
- Care: Centering clinical attention on the whole person—not just the illness—by prioritizing emotional comfort, dignity, and deep compassion at every stage of treatment.
- Hope: Fueling the belief in what is possible through continuous medical innovation, clinical dedication, and relentless progress.
From Dr Khoo Kei Siong, deputy medical director, “Trust continues to build as we take time to explain things clearly and honestly, and walk with them through uncertainties and difficult decisions.”
Dr Ang emphasized, “We believe that cancer care could be and should be more comprehensive and above all, more human.”
Dr Richard Quek echoed this sentiment, saying “Care is about walking with the patient from diagnosis, through treatment, and beyond. Over the years, I have had patients return to see me long after their treatment has ended, with their families, spouses, children, and even newborn babies. That is when we know we did not just treat cancer, we have touched lives.”
“Hope makes a huge difference in treatment outcome. Hope helps to motivate our patients, it energizes them and fires up their fighting spirit. We never give patients false hope. When hope is paired with trust, and care, it can become a powerful part of the healing journey,” shared Dr Teo Cheng Peng, Haematology senior consultant.
Although cancer changes a person’s life completely, the founders emphasized that it does not change what Parkway Cancer Centre stands for.
“These values capture the essence of our mission to deliver premier cancer services defined by utmost care, comfort and compassion.”
PCC has come a long way over the past 20 years. Moving forward, the organization will be guided by its newly adopted core values to ensure the continued delivery of exceptional cancer care.
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