Radiotherapy

The Department of Radiotherapy at Shuguang Hospital Affiliated with Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine opened in December 2022. The department is equipped with a complete set of leading radiotherapy equipment, including the American Varian Halcyon3.0 linear accelerator and a Siemens large-bore CT simulation and positioning system, and can perform the most advanced radiotherapy techniques, such as three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT), intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT), image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT), and stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), making radiotherapy more efficient, precise, and safe.

The Department of Radiotherapy adheres to the principles of “patients first, clinical practice as the foundation, and scientific research and scholarship,” conducts in-depth research on new radiotherapy protocols integrating Chinese and Western medicine, actively leverages the distinctive strengths of traditional Chinese medicine, and has established in-depth cooperation with the departments of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Rehabilitation, and Massage, thereby realizing a new model of integrated Chinese and Western medicine treatment for all types of complex tumors throughout the body, including breast cancer, lung cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, rectal cancer, and esophageal cancer.

The radiotherapy department team is a talent team characterized by “multidisciplinary, professional, and innovative” qualities. The physician team comprises 2 physicians with senior professional titles, 1 attending physician, and 2 residents. The physics and technology team comprises 2 medical physicists, 3 therapists, and 6 nurses. The department undertakes 3 research projects from the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and other institutions, has published more than 10 papers in SCI-indexed and Chinese core journals, applied for 3 invention patents, and hosted 1 Shanghai municipal-level continuing education program.

The Department of Radiotherapy will always uphold the hospital’s spirit of “the virtue and benevolence of great physicians, the dawn of life,” devote itself to advancing frontier exploration in radiotherapy science and technology, deepening clinical research on the integration of Chinese and Western medicine, and providing more comprehensive, more precise, and more timely medical services to the broad community of tumor patients.