The Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center (FUSCC, ), also called the Shanghai Cancer Hospital (), is a
teaching hospital
A teaching hospital is a hospital or medical centre that provides medical education and training to future and current health professionals. Teaching hospitals are almost always affiliated with one or more universities and are often co-located ...
affiliated with the
Shanghai Medical College
The Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, formerly the independent Shanghai Medical University, is one of the oldest and most prestigious medical schools in China. Clinical medicine of the Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University is c ...
of
Fudan University. Founded in 1931, it is the first cancer specialty hospital in China. It is rated Grade 3, Class A.
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 American College of Radiology (ACR), founded in 1923, is a professional medical society representing nearly 40,000 diagnostic radiologists, radiation oncologists, interventional radiologists, nuclear medicine physicians and medical physicists.
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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 Radioation Oncology'', and the magazine ''Anti-Cancer'' (抗癌).
History
The hospital was founded on 1 March 1931 as the Sino-Belgian Radium Institute (, French: Institut Sino-Belge du Radium), sited in the Sacred Heart Hospital of Shanghai (, now Yangpu Central Hospital). It was funded by a minor remittance of
Boxer Indemnity
The Boxer Protocol was signed on September 7, 1901, between the Qing Empire of China and the Eight-Nation Alliance that had provided military forces (including Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the Un ...
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.
See also
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Tang Yuhan, former president of the Sino-Belgian Radium Institute
References
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Teaching hospitals in Shanghai
Fudan University
Hospitals established in 1931
1931 establishments in China
Cancer hospitals in China