Shanghai Cancer Center

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| State = Shanghai

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| Affiliation= Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University

| Beds = 1,100

| Founded = 1931

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The Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center (FUSCC, {{zh|s=复旦大学附属肿瘤医院}}), also called the Shanghai Cancer Hospital ({{zh|s=上海市肿瘤医院}}), is a teaching hospital affiliated with the Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University. Founded in 1931, it is the first cancer specialty hospital in China. It is rated Grade 3, Class A.{{Cite web|url=http://shmc.fudan.edu.cn/eng/show/CancerCenter|title=Shanghai Cancer Center|website=Fudan University|access-date=2018-11-30}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.fudan.edu.cn/entries/view/110/|title=复旦大学附属肿瘤医院|date=2013-02-16|website=Fudan University|language=zh|access-date=2018-11-30|archive-date=2018-11-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181130155128/http://www.fudan.edu.cn/entries/view/110/|url-status=live}}

Overview

In 2013, the hospital had 1,489 staff, including 1,298 medical professionals, 154 of whom are professors or associate professors. The president is Jiang Guoliang (蒋国梁), a fellow of the American College of Radiology. The hospital has 1,100 beds and treats more than 590,000 outpatients and 22,000 inpatients per year.{{Cite web|url=http://www.fudan.edu.cn/en/channels/view/63/|title=Fudan University - Affiliated Hospitals|website=Fudan University|access-date=2018-11-30}}

The hospital publishes two Chinese-language journals, the English Journal of Radiation Oncology, and the magazine Anti-Cancer (抗癌).

History

The hospital was founded on 1 March 1931 as the Sino-Belgian Radium Institute ({{zh|t=中比鐳錠治療院|s=}}, French: Institut Sino-Belge du Radium), sited in the Sacred Heart Hospital of Shanghai ({{zh|t=上海聖心醫院|s=}}, now Yangpu Central Hospital). It was funded by a minor remittance of Boxer Indemnity paid by China to Belgian. It became an independent institute in 1936, and was renamed Shanghai Radium Institute ({{zh|t=上海鐳錠治療院|s=}}) after the Communists captured Shanghai in 1949. It was affiliated to the Shanghai First Medical College from 1954, and renamed the Cancer Hospital of SFMC.{{Cite book|url=http://www.shtong.gov.cn/dfz_web/DFZ/Info?idnode=67850&tableName=userobject1a&id=65195|title=上海市专志・上海卫生志|year=1998|isbn=7806185305|trans-title=Shanghai Municipal Special Gazetteer, Volume on Health|author1=张明岛|archive-date=2018-12-01|access-date=2018-11-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201005117/http://www.shtong.gov.cn/dfz_web/DFZ/Info?idnode=67850&tableName=userobject1a&id=65195|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.shca.org.cn/english/show/history1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170607093348/http://www.shca.org.cn/english/show/history1|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 7, 2017|title=History|website=Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center}}

See also

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

References