Shanghai Cancer Center

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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 called 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. Founded in 1931, it is the first cancer specialty hospital in China. It is rated Grade 3, Class A.^[1]^[2]

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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.^[2] The hospital has 1,100 beds and treats more than 590,000 outpatients and 22,000 inpatients per year.^[3]

The hospital publishes two Chinese-language journals, the English Journal of Radiation Oncology, and the magazine Anti-Cancer (抗癌).^[2]

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The hospital was founded on 1 March 1931 as the Sino-Belgian Radium Institute (Chinese: 中比鐳錠治療院, French: Institut Sino-Belge du Radium), sited in the Sacred Heart Hospital of Shanghai (Chinese: 上海聖心醫院, 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 (Chinese: 上海鐳錠治療院) 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.^[4]^[5]

References

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^ "Shanghai Cancer Center". Fudan University. Retrieved 2018-11-30.
^ ^a ^b ^c "复旦大学附属肿瘤医院". Fudan University (in Chinese). 2013-02-16. Retrieved 2018-11-30.
^ "Fudan University - Affiliated Hospitals". Fudan University. Retrieved 2018-11-30.
^ 张明岛 (1998). 上海市专志・上海卫生志 [Shanghai Municipal Special Gazetteer, Volume on Health]. ISBN 7806185305.
^ "History". Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center.^{[dead link]}

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