Oncology

Department of Oncology

The Department of Oncology at Shuguang Hospital was established in 1955 and comprises three main components: the Department of Medical Oncology, the Department of Interventional Oncology, and the Oncology Research Institute. After more than 60 years of development, it has become a clinical department integrating clinical care, scientific research, and teaching, with a distinctive clinical focus on the prevention and treatment of tumors using traditional Chinese medicine and integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine. The oncology discipline is an important component of the National Key Discipline (Internal Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine—Oncology) and the National 12th Five-Year Plan Key Discipline (Clinical Medicine Integrating Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine); it is also an innovation team under the national Double First-Class University Construction initiative, a Shanghai 085 First-Class Discipline, a Shanghai First-Class Discipline in Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, a Shanghai High-Plateau, High-Peak, High-Level Innovation Team, and an institution involved in establishing the Shanghai Colorectal Cancer Specialty Alliance. The discipline has a Level III Laboratory of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, an International Cooperation (China–U.S.) Molecular Biology Laboratory, and the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Clinical Traditional Chinese Medicine.

The oncology discipline follows the development philosophy that "clinical practice drives scientific research, and scientific research advances clinical practice," adheres to the principles of "standardization, individualization, comprehensiveness, and normalization" for the integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment of tumors, and is a comprehensive department integrating chemotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, thermotherapy, interventional therapy, ablation, and traditional Chinese medicine treatment. While leveraging the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine, it has established long-term collaborations with overseas medical institutions such as Weill Medical College of Cornell University in the United States, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Moffitt Cancer Center, the University of South Florida, Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and the University of Sydney in clinical diagnosis and treatment, scientific research, education and teaching, and international exchange and cooperation, thereby keeping the clinical diagnosis and treatment of tumors in step with advanced international standards.

The oncology discipline team is a young, innovative, and multidisciplinary team of professionals, comprising 12 doctoral degree holders, 7 master’s degree holders, and 2 people with bachelor’s degrees or below, with an average age of 38 years. The discipline has 1 candidate selected for the National Hundred-Thousand-Ten-Thousand Talent Project, 1 young or middle-aged expert with outstanding contributions recognized by the National Health and Family Planning Commission, 1 recipient of a State Council Special Allowance, one of the 100 nationally outstanding young TCM practitioners, 1 Shanghai Famous TCM Physician, 1 Shanghai Leading Talent, 1 Shanghai Medical Leading Talent, 1 Shanghai Leading Talent in Traditional Chinese Medicine, 3 Shanghai Young Science and Technology Qimingxing honorees, 1 Shanghai Baiyulan Science and Technology Talent, 2 Shanghai Outstanding Discipline Leaders, 2 Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Pacesetters, 1 Shanghai Outstanding Technical Talent, 2 recipients of the Shanghai Silver Snake Award, 3 Shanghai Outstanding Young Medical Talents, 1 Shanghai Xinglin New Star, 1 recipient of the Meiji Life Science Award, 2 "Xinglin Scholars" at Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and 3 reserve professional experts at Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The oncology discipline has trained a total of 6 postdoctoral fellows, 13 doctoral students, and 36 master’s students. It has undertaken 29 projects, including key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and key international cooperation projects, as well as 45 Shanghai municipal scientific research projects. It has published more than 400 academic papers, 110 of which were indexed in SCI, applied for 31 national invention patents, 10 of which have been granted, and received 14 academic awards, including the Ministry of Education Science and Technology Progress Award, the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award, and the China Association of Chinese Medicine Science and Technology Progress Award.