Oncology Radiotherapy Ward

The Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University is also known as the Cancer Hospital Affiliated to Dalian Medical University. The Department of Radiation Oncology is the earliest-established radiotherapy department in Dalian. Founded in the early 1950s and having undergone nearly 70 years of development, it has become the largest modern comprehensive tumor radiotherapy center in southern Liaoning integrating medical care, teaching and research. The Department of Radiation Oncology is a national clinical key specialty and also a clinical key discipline of Liaoning Province and Dalian City; it is the Dalian Cancer Treatment Center, holds doctoral and master's degree authorization points, and is a domestic base for clinical teaching, scientific research and specialist talent training in the field of tumor radiotherapy.

The Department of Radiation Oncology possesses world-advanced equipment including the American Varian Trilogy high-energy accelerator, the UNIQUE accelerator, a Dutch three-dimensional brachytherapy machine, an American Acuity simulator, a Siemens CT simulator and a three-dimensional treatment planning system. It can carry out advanced radiotherapy techniques such as image-guided volumetric modulated arc therapy, three-dimensional intracavitary brachytherapy, and 3D-printed non-coplanar template seed implantation, and can complete precise external and internal radiotherapy for various malignant tumors and benign lesions. It treats nearly 1/2 of the tumor radiotherapy patients in Dalian and enjoys a high reputation domestically.

With Professor Zou Lijuan, a doctoral supervisor, as the discipline leader, a professional technical team composed of graduate supervisors, doctors and masters in radiotherapy, and intermediate and senior physicians, physicists and technicians has long been dedicated to the clinical, teaching and scientific research work of tumor radiotherapy. It undertakes multi-level teaching work for Dalian Medical University and has trained more than 100 doctoral and master's students in total. It has undertaken more than 10 national, provincial and municipal scientific research projects and won more than 10 national, provincial and municipal science and technology progress awards.

The department has successively sent a number of young and middle-aged technical backbone doctors, physicists and others to the United States, Japan and well-known domestic institutions for further study. It has long maintained close professional exchanges and cooperation with the radiation oncology departments of many domestic hospitals, has engaged more than 10 well-known domestic radiotherapy experts as visiting professors of the hospital, conducts joint consultations for difficult cases, and provides patients with reasonable, effective and safe diagnosis and treatment plans.