Radiotherapy

The Oncology Treatment Center of the Second People's Hospital of Guangdong Province was established in 1992 and is now the Guangdong Provincial Cancer Pain Treatment Center and a research base of the Clinical Medicine Postdoctoral Mobile Station of Sun Yat-sen University. The center currently has 3 associate chief physicians, 1 postdoctoral fellow, 1 doctoral degree holder, and 2 master's degree holders. The center has undertaken and completed 5 projects funded by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province and the Guangdong Provincial Research Fund. The center currently has 120 authorized beds. It was among the first in China to introduce three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy and possesses advanced domestic tumor treatment equipment, including the Siemens PRIMUS medical linear accelerator, the American CMS three-dimensional treatment planning system, the Toshiba simulator, the CT-Sim positioning system, the Swedish three-dimensional dosimetry water phantom, an afterloading therapy unit, and a high-intensity focused ultrasound tumor treatment system. In cooperation with institutions of higher education in Guangzhou, the center has also developed treatment technologies including cellular immunotherapy, interventional therapy, biologically guided therapy, targeted hyperthermia, and conformal radiotherapy. It provides internationally advanced, standardized comprehensive treatment protocols for malignant tumors and has achieved clinical outcomes satisfactory to patients.