Shanghai Cancer Center

The Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, also called the Shanghai Cancer Hospital, 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.

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

History

The hospital was founded on 1 March 1931 as the Sino-Belgian Radium Institute, sited in the Sacred Heart Hospital of Shanghai. 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 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.