Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Prevention and Control Center (Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Hospital) is one of the four earliest cancer hospitals established in New China. It was founded on March 1, 1964 and is located at No. 651, Dongfeng East Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. The Center is one of the largest and strongest academic medical, teaching and research bases of oncology in China, undertaking the important task of national tumor prevention and treatment, especially in South China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan with an important leading role.
Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Prevention and Control Center integrates medical treatment, teaching, scientific research and prevention, and is an important supporting unit of National Key Discipline (Oncology), National Key Laboratory (South China State Key Laboratory of Oncology), Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, National Clinical Trial and Research Center of New Drugs (Anti-tumor Drugs), China Center for Integrative Medicine and Western Medicine Tumor Center, and Provincial-Ministerial Collaborative Innovation Center of Oncology Medicine. In addition, the center also hosts Cancer Communications, the leading English academic journal of oncology in China, as well as Cancer Prevention Newspaper, a popularized scientific newspaper on tumor prevention and treatment with a unified issue number in China.
In terms of scientific research, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center has been ranked as one of the top two hospitals in China in terms of scientific and technological influence, and ranked the 4th cancer center in the world in the 2020 Nature Index. Since 1964, the center has trained a large number of oncology specialists for the whole country, and is a national medical continuing education base. between 2012 and 2016, the center carried out 66 new medical technologies, including 17 international innovations; 616 new clinical research projects, and the number of clinical trials for new drugs was 244. Cumulatively, a total of 35 research results have been adopted by international malignant tumor diagnosis and treatment guidelines and promoted and applied globally.
In terms of teaching, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center is the internship base for doctoral and master's degree in oncology, and has a high-level medical teaching and research team, including academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, master's degree supervisors and doctoral supervisors. The Center also regularly organizes various academic activities, such as the 12th Summer Camp for National Outstanding Undergraduates on Basic Research and Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Oncology, and participates in international oncology conferences, such as the 11th Guangzhou International Conference on Oncology.
In terms of clinical services, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center provides comprehensive oncology diagnosis and treatment services, including booking appointments, online consultation, etc. Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center has significant advantages in oncology prevention and treatment, scientific research and teaching, and is one of the oncology bases of national and even international importance.
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