Established in 2005, the Department of Radiation Oncology at Yan Chai Hospital admits radiotherapy and comprehensive treatment of various common malignant tumors, and has subspecialties such as head and neck, thoracic and abdominopelvic cavity. The department has strong technical force, routinely carries out tumor three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy, intensity-modulated radiotherapy, VMAT rotation therapy, TOMO and three-dimensional afterloading brachytherapy and stereotactic radiotherapy, and is a member of the Radiotherapy Expert Committee of the Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology (CSCO) and the unit of the president of the Radiotherapy Branch of the Shanghai Medical Doctor Association. The department has advanced equipment, including four linear accelerators including EDGE, Halcyon and TOMO, a three-dimensional after-loading treatment machine and a CT simulation positioning machine. The department has a balanced development of medical education and research, while ensuring that patients receive high-quality and efficient clinical treatment, it also carries out clinical experiments and basic scientific research, and has two full-time scientific research personnel, which is a master's degree program in oncology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, a national radiotherapy residency training base and a residential training base in Shanghai, and accepts advanced physicians and physicists from many hospitals in China.
In terms of clinical application, the center has a radiotherapy specialty, with inpatient and outpatient areas. Since its establishment, the department has treated more than 25,000 cancer patients, involving more than 34 kinds of diseases, and is in a leading position in the treatment and research of lung cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, esophageal cancer, intestinal cancer and nasopharyngeal cancer. The department has a total of 61 approved beds, more than 3,620 discharged patients per year, more than 22,677 outpatient visits per year, and an average of nearly 2,000 first-time patients admitted annually.
In terms of platform equipment, the Department of Radiation Oncology is now equipped with the latest Class A TOMO spiral tomography radiotherapy machine, two latest linear accelerators with image guidance function and respiratory motion management that can perform four-dimensional radiotherapy, a ring accelerator, a head stereotactic radiosurgery gamma knife, a brachytherapy machine, and a four-dimensional large-aperture CT. It is supported by a variety of new radiotherapy technologies, such as treatment planning systems of different brands, as well as QA tools that can be used for quality control and quality assurance of TOMO and rotational intensity-modulated technology. It has a complete network system and a doctor's workstation.
In terms of talent echelon, the center has 18 physicians, including 6 doctors; There are 6 doctoral students, including 3 senior high school students, 5 associate senior high school students, 8 attending doctors, and 3 hospitalized students; There are 18 nurses in the inpatient department, 2 outpatients, 7 physicists and 22 technicians. There are 2 full-time scientific researchers. A number of clinical subspecialties have been set up, such as thoracic tumors, head and neck tumors, breast tumors, gastrointestinal tumors, urological tumors, and nervous system tumors, and special personnel are responsible for them.