Shanghai Cancer Center

Shanghai Cancer Center
Geography
Location	Shanghai, China
Organisation
Type	Teaching
Affiliated university	Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University
Services
Beds	1,100
History
Opened	1931
Links
Website	www.shca.org.cn
Lists	Hospitals in China

The Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center (FUSCC, Chinese: 复旦大学附属肿瘤医院 ), also known as the Shanghai Cancer Hospital (Chinese: 上海市肿瘤医院 ), is a teaching hospital affiliated with the Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University. Established in 1931, it is the first cancer specialty hospital in China. The hospital is rated Grade 3, Class A.

Overview

As of 2013, the Shanghai Cancer Center had 1,489 staff members, including 1,298 medical professionals, with 154 of them being professors or associate professors. The hospital is led by President Jiang Guoliang, a fellow of the American College of Radiology. It has a capacity of 1,100 beds and provides treatment to over 590,000 outpatients and 22,000 inpatients annually. The hospital publishes two Chinese-language journals, the English Journal of Radiation Oncology, and the magazine Anti-Cancer (抗癌).

History

The Shanghai Cancer Center was originally established on March 1, 1931, as the Sino-Belgian Radium Institute, located within the Sacred Heart Hospital of Shanghai (now Yangpu Central Hospital). It was funded by a minor remittance of the Boxer Indemnity paid by China to Belgium. In 1936, it became an independent institute and was renamed the Shanghai Radium Institute after the Communists captured Shanghai in 1949. It was affiliated with the Shanghai First Medical College from 1954 and was later renamed the Cancer Hospital of SFMC.

See also

• Tang Yuhan, former president of the Sino-Belgian Radium Institute