Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (National Cancer Center)
中国医学科学院肿瘤医院
The Cancer Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences is a public cancer specialty hospital founded in 1958 and the host of China's National Cancer Center. Its thoracic surgery department handles large volumes of lung and esophageal cancer surgery.
Documented strengths
- Founded in 1958 as Ritan Hospital; host institution of the National Cancer Center since 2009 and site of the National Clinical Research Center for cancer and the national cancer quality control center (hospital introduction, cicams.ac.cn)
- Thoracic surgery department reports more than 10,000 chest tumor operations a year, over 90% minimally invasive, and 11 consecutive years at No. 1 in Fudan University's thoracic surgery reputation ranking (department page, cicams.ac.cn)
- Hospital reports more than 1 million outpatient visits and over 30,000 operations a year (hospital introduction, cicams.ac.cn)
- Equipment listed by the hospital includes a proton accelerator, MR-guided linear accelerator, TomoTherapy and PET-MRI (hospital introduction, cicams.ac.cn)
How international patients access it
No public international department was found. Foreign patients typically register with a passport at the regular or specialty clinic, pay as self-pay in RMB, and arrange interpretation themselves. Confirm by phone before traveling.
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