Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute is one of the top academic cancer centers in China with 790-bed comprehensive and 1,500 health care professionals working in 30 clinical departments, 13 paramedical departments, and 10 laboratories.It is one of the most versatile cancer centers in China, and advocates multidisciplinary cooperation to offer patients the best tailored comprehensive therapies possible. Its research section was designated as the Key Laboratory of “Malignancy Pathogenesis and Translational Research” by the Ministry of Education in 2010, focusing on carcinogenesis, cancer prevention, biology, epidemiology and biotherapy.

In our hospital, gastric cancer is treated by the multidisplinary team, which is led by Prof. Dr. Ji, the president of IGCC 2017. The team members consists of oncologist, surgeons, pathologist, radiologist and other professionals. It is the education center for gastrointestinal cancer multidisciplinary treatment of Chinese Anti-Cancer Association (CACA).

The surgical department, i.e. Gastrointestinal Cancer Center, provides varied surgical approaches for different stage diseases including endoscopic submucosal dissection for early gastric cancer, laparoscopic staging, minimally invasive surgery with standard D2 gastrectomy for locally advanced gastric cancer, perioperative chemotherapy/chemoradiotherapy, sentinel lymph nodes staining, hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) and so on. Our center has 122 beds with 148 health care professionals. The center treats over 16,000 outpatients and 2,500 gastrointestinal operations per year. Also have constructed the biggest cancer biobank in China andwere selected to join the International network of Cancer Genome Projects in 2010.

In addition to our clinical practice, our center participate or take the lead of many international/nationalclinical trialsincluding RESOLVE, CRADLE, CLASS-01, EXPEL and SHOP-G01 study etc. Meanwhile, our center also devotes the investigation of tumor molecular mechanisms, collection of genetic resources, construction of tumor tissue biobank and so on. We have taken charge of more than 60 research projects, and the total research funding is more than 10 million RMB annually.

Our center is devoted to offering the best of evidence-based and patient-centered medical care, conducting high-level basic and translational researches, and providing high-quality basic medical teaching and specialization training programs. We warmly welcome doctors, researchers and other professionals to visit our center via the VPCI program. Visiting fellows will be able to visit the multidisplinary departments, laboratories, and join the academic events, research mettings and surgical procedures (MD degree required). Detailed or personalized visiting plan can be arranged after further contact with us.

Website: http://www.bjcancer.org
Address: #52 Fu-Cheng Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100142, P. R. China
Visiting Duration: 24 – 28 April, 2017 (Detailed visiting schedule would be announced soon)

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Contact infomation:
Xin Ji M.D.
Department of G.I. Surgery
Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute
#52 Fu-Cheng Road,Hai-Dian District,Beijing 100142, China
E-mail: jxjxjxjx@126.com

Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital was founded in 1972, which covers an area of 233, 500 square meters. It is the only garden-like Three Levels of First-class Hospital integrated with cancer-prevention, health care, teaching and research in Heilongjiang Province. The hospital's comprehensive strength is top ten on the rankings of the national tumor specialized hospital. It contains 2,200 beds, with more than 100,000 patients discharged from the hospital， more than forty thousand patients visiting the outpatient department and more than 30,000 cases of surgery each year. Our hospital is a tumor specialized hospital, committed to the task of medical care in most of North China and other regions in China, even in Russia and Northeast Asia region. Our hospital has become the first international co-operation tumor proton therapy center as well as the first precision medical center in Northeast China this year.

Since its founding, the hospital has been granted more than 80 national research funds, with expenditure of over 30 million RMB. During the 12th Five-Year Plan period, the hospital has been granted more than 70 provincial or ministerial research funds, with expenditure of over 60 million RMB. There are also 7 provincial or ministerial key labs affiliated to the hospital. The employees of the hospital contain over 40 specialists with national academic activities. The hospital has actively conducted international exchanges and kept a close friendship and research collaboration with many top hospitals in the world such as MD Anderson Cancer Center, Swedish Cancer Institute and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital has always stuck to the guideline of "pursuit brilliance, create health " in order to become a modern hospital for clinical services and medical teaching with comprehensive disciplines, advanced facilities, excellent techniques and beautiful environment for the patients all over the world.

Department of Gastroenterologic Surgery
The department of gastroenterologic surgery is the gastroenterologic tumor diagnosis and treatment center in Heilongjiang, which is also the vice presedent unit of the Chinese Gastric Cancer Association, the chairman unit of the Heilongjiang Gastric Cancer Association and the chairman unit of the Heilongjiang Medical Association gastric tumor branch. The department is one of the multidisciplinary treatment center for gastroenterologic tumor in China, as well as the gastric cancer training demonstration base of the China Anti-Cancer Association.

The Department has completed more than 1,000 cases of surgery each year, since 2010. We established and accomplished the cloud information management database system for gastric cancer, which contained 15000 gastric tumor cases.

Our department has PhD program and clinical medicine postgraduate program which are directed by 2 doctoral supervisors. We have been granted 9 research funds above provincial level and 6 awards of various levels for its scientific and technological achievements which included 1 third prize of Ministry of Health Science and Technology Progress, 1 third prize of Chinese Medical Science and Technology Progress and 3 second prize of Heilongjiang Provincial Government Science and Technology Progress. 

Website:  http://www.hmucancerhospital.org.cn/
Address: #150  Ha-Ping Road, NanGang District, Herbin 150081, P.R.China
Visiting Duration: 24-28 April, 2017

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Contact infomation:
Chunfeng Li, M.D.
Department of G.I. Surgery
Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital
E-mail: lichunfeng007@163.com

Ren Ji Hospital, founded in 1884, is a municipal tertiary hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine.  It was the first western medical hospital in Shanghai after port opening.

Department of general surgery in Ren Ji Hospital was founded in 1952 by a famous Chinese surgeon, Professor Xichun Lan who had UK clinical experience at the time.  Also, this was considered an early general surgery department affiliated to an educational medical college in recent Chinese history.  In 2012, it was qualified for the State Key Department by national government.

The division of gastrointestinal (GI) surgery was specialized from general surgery in 2013. It contains 150 beds.  Most of the surgeons in GI surgery have received doctor and master degree.  Many of the medical crews take positions in Chinese Medical Association. The areas of gastro-enterology and colo-rectal-anus are the main sub professional branches of the division.

The gastro-enterologic branch has been emphasizing on the standardized and minimally invasive surgical treatments on gastric cancer and GIST.  More than 1000 cases of gastric cancer are treated in our hospital every year. The rate of early gastric cancer in our hospital is about 20%.  Among them, more than 150 cases are performed by EMR or ESD in Ren Ji endoscopic center.  Meanwhile, laparoscopic surgeries for gastric cancer increase annually.  About 200 cases of laparoscopic gastrectomies were performed last year.  We also started to perform laparoscopic assisted pyloric preserving gastrectomies (LAPPG) from 2014 and till now, we have already finished more than 40 cases. The initial experience of this procedure was introduced on international and domestic conferences. The 3rd generation Da Vinci robotic system was acquired in our hospital in September, 2014.  We have already performed more than 130 cases of robotic GI surgeries.  We also set up the MDT for gastric cancer as a core division.  More than 400 cases of difficult cases from across the country are referred here for consultation till now. The division of GI surgery has ranked one of the top divisions in Shanghai tertiary hospitals in terms of out-patient number, in-patient number, operation number, operation varieties, and operation difficulties. The accomplishments from the sub professional branch have received great public recognitions.

Recently the division has successfully received all levels of government fund in different areas.  Currently, the divisions focused on the gastric cancer and GIST in both clinical and basic areas.  Most notably, the division joined several national-wide clinical multi-centered RCTs, such as the CLASS series, the NEO-CLASSIC trials, and so on. As for the laboratory, it focused on translational medicine, molecular biological and oncological investigation in gastric cancer and GIST.

Besides the clinical services and basic researches, the GI division bears strong responsibilities for the education to students from medical university, including medical bachelor, master and doctor. Furthermore, there is collaboration with international institutions in foreign medical student trainings and exchange programs.  Beyond the medical students, it has obligation for the clinical training to both interns and residents.

In addition, the division has established international collaboration with oversea medical institutions, including Japan, Korea, United States, Italy and Germany.  Medical staffs are assigned to the exchange program annually.  The division also welcomes visiting doctors from other countries for extra medical education and clinical experiences.

Website: http://www.renji.com/En/Home/index.aspx
Address: No. 160, Pu Jian Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai 200127, P. R. China
Visiting Duration: 24-28 April, 2017

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Contact infomation:
Enhao Zhao M.D.
Department of GI Surgery
Ren Ji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine
No. 160, Pu Jian Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai 200127, P. R. China
E-mail: mcirozhaoenhao@hotmail.com

Fujian Medical University Union Hospital was founded in 1860 and enjoys a long history.  Now it has a history of 156 years and bearing a reputation of the cradle of modern medicine of Fujian Province. The Department of Gastric Surgery of Fujian Medical University Union Hospital is the first gastric cancer center concentrating on gastric cancer in China with 47 bed-comprehensive, 16 doctors and 18 nurses.  7 doctors have senior professional title.  Among them, 1 people is Ph.D. supervisor and 3 people are Master’ supervisor，and mean while 1 people is professor and 4 people are associate professors.  More than 90% doctors have Master degree.  Our center is not only clinical, scientific research and education base, but also one of the most versatile cancer centers.
Our center is led by Prof. Chang-Ming Huang who is devoted to offering new surgical theory and standard comprehensive treatment. Gastric cancer minimal invasive surgery with standard D2 gastrectomy for patients with gastric cancer is the most characteristic surgical approach in our department. Every year more than 700 patients with gastric cancer undergo laparoscopic surgery.  Our team has completed more than 3500 laparoscopic surgery to nowadays with the most cases in China.  Data of our study shows laparoscopic surgery can achieve similar short- and long -term outcomes with conditional open surgery.  Our department is the first to develop Delta-Shaped gastroduodenostomy in totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy in China.  We also develop new technology such as a modified Delta-Shaped gastroduodenostomy in totally laparoscopic gastrectomy and Huang’s three-step maneuver for laparoscopic spleen-preserving No. 10 lymph node dissection for advanced proximal gastric cancer.  In the last 5 years, we have published 1 monograph in English, 2 monographs in Chinese and 60 papers in SCI journal.  Our team is invited to demonstrate laparoscopic surgery for gastric cancer more than 50 times per year.Our center has undertaken many national and provincial research projects and is awarded Fujian Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award. In addition to our clinical practice, our department participates and takes the lead of many international/national trails such as CLASS-04.

Our center is devoted to provide high-quality basic medicine teaching, specialization training programs and standard laparoscopic surgical procedure.  We warmly welcome doctors, researches and professionals to visit our center via the VPCI program.  Detailed or personalized visiting plan can be arranged after further contact with us.

Website: http://www.fjxhwwk.com/
Address: No.29 Xinquan Road, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China
Visiting Duration: 24-28 April, 2017

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Contact information:
Jia-Bin Wang M.D.
Tel: +8613763875180
E-mail: 847044493@qq.com

Nanfang Hospital was established in 1941 during the Second World War II as a military hospital. As the first affiliated hospital of Southern Medical University, Nanfang Hospital is a general hospital handling health care, medical education and scientific research. It has been approved as a top Class Grade-A Hospital at the first nationwide review and judgment as well as one of the One Hundred Best Hospitals in China. In 2014, Nanfang hospital ranked at 16 among Chinese Hospital top list released by Fudan University which is the only ranking list of medical faculties in China.

Located at the foot of the picturesque Baiyun Mountain, Guangzhou City, the 2,349-bed hospital covers an area of 450,000 square meters with 3,110,636 emergency and outpatients, 95,914 inpatients and 85,107 operations in 2014. Caressed by the spring breeze of Chinese reforms and open policy, Nanfang Hospital has been burying its head in innovation and development and now harvested attention-catching fruits in its full-scale construction relying on the fame through quality service, the influence through execution of two civilizations, the advance through scientific management. The hospital has been appraised as one of “First Class Hospitals at Grade III” as well as one of “National One Hundred Exemplary Hospitals”. 

The hospital takes pride in its comprehensive medical departments and specialties with powerful techniques. Over 3,564 professionals including more than 527 specialists and professors work in the 56 medical departments under its administration, including one academician of the Chinese Science Academy , 25 receivers of  state council special allowance,  and one candidate of national thousand youth talent project. There are two national key disciplines and 14 state-level key clinical specialties approved by MOH, China, including gastroenterology, orthopedics, general surgery and etc.

Department of General Surgery

Department of General Surgery provides comprehensive surgical consultation and care in many subspecialties including gastric surgery, colorectal surgery, hernia surgery, pediatric surgery and thyroid surgery. Our skilled surgeons are fellowship trained in various specialties, especially for laparoscopic gastrectomy and many are renowned across the country, as leaders in their respective disciplines.

One of the unique features of the department training program is its unwavering commitment is to laparoscopic gastrointestinal surgery education from the department leadership. Advanced COE courses for laparoscopic radical resection of gastric cancer and colorectal cancer are accredited by Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS). The department is also the state-accredited general surgery training center and laparoscopic surgery training center.

Research in the Department has grown tremendously over the past decades, publishing numerous SCI publications, including Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO), Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS), Clinical Cancer Research and etc.. The Department is also home to over 10 Nation-funded research grants, offering research training opportunities for doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows in the field of surgical oncology.

Hospital Website: http://www.nfyy.com/
Address: #1838 North Guangzhou Avenue, Guangzhou 510515, P. R. China
Visiting Duration: 24 – 28 April, 2017 (Detailed visiting schedule would be announced soon)

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Contact information:
Hao Liu M.D. Ph.D.
Department of General Surgery
NanFang Hospital, Southern Medical University
#1838 North Guangzhou Avenue, Guangzhou 510515, P. R. China
E-mail: nfykdxpwk@163.com

Guangdong General Hospital (GGH for short) was founded in 1946 and is one of the largest general hospitals in China. The architectural area adds up to 230,000m2. Now there are 5,252 hospital staffs including 3,957 medical staffs and 681 staffs with senior professional titles. The hospital has more than 2800 opening beds and the annual numbers of discharge were 106,001.

GGH has been upholding the motto of “Commitment in profession, integrity in practice and quality in service” with the spirit of “teamwork, prudence, inspiration, and dedication”. In 2004 Ta Kung Pao (newspaper) in Hong Kong made a survey among Hong Kong readers, Guangdong General Hospital was honorably rated as “the Most Trustworthy Medical Institution in Mainland China”. On November 15, 2007, GGH obtained the Qualification Certificate of Clinical Trial Institution (Certificate No.0174) issued by SFDA eleven divisions were accredited.

The department of general surgery (gastrointestinal cancer center) is one of the most influential domestic gastrointestinal surgery centers in China. The team of multidisciplinary team (MDT) provides individual comprehensive therapy for patients with gastrointestinal malignant tumors. Patients’ postoperative 5-year survival rate ranks the leading place in the domestic hospitals in China. Over 1000 cases of gastrointestinal cancer were conducted in our center, and more than 80% of them were finished by laparoscopic surgery.

We have the first integrated digital operating room in our country, laparoscopic and endoscopic surgery can be performed in the same time. We are one of the highly influential laparoscopic technology centers domestic and overseas. In addition to the laparoscopic minimally invasive treatment, we implemented ERAS (Enhanced Recovery After Surgery) on our patients with gastrointestinal cancer since 2013, which has received positive feedback.  Summarize our experiences, we compiled the book Notes Of ERAS In GI Surgery. It is our honor to share our experience, and we hope that more doctors and nurses could know about ERAS in our country.

We welcome visiting doctors from all over the world for extra medical education and clinical experiences.

Website: http://www.gdghospital.org.cn/EN/Index.php
Address: #102 Zhongshaner Rd, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China.
Visiting Duration: 24-28 April, 2017

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Contact information:
Junjiang Wang M.D.
Department of General Surgery
Guangdong General Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Science)
#102 Zhongshaner Rd, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China
Tel: +8613711657200
E-mail: 6726582@qq.com

The General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army (PLAGH) was founded in 1953 and was formerly the Second Clinical Medical College Affiliated to the China Union Hospital.  Over more than half of a century, it has developed itself into a large modern general hospital that has numerous professional talents, all clinical disciplines, state-of-the-art equipments and unique predominance. With medical care, education and research well integrated, the PLAGH has provided health and medical care to the leaders of the CPC Central Committee, the Central Military Commission, the PLA General Headquarters, and to the troops stationed in Beijing.  It has also provided diagnosis and treatment for the critically-ill who are transferred from different areas of commands of the PLA. Meanwhile it is open to civilian patients.

The PLAGH is at the same time the PLA Medical College that was founded in 1958.  It is the same institution that has two names and is the only hospital-run education institution in the PLA.

The PLAGH has 125 clinical, medical and technological departments, 4000 patient beds, and annual volumes of more than 3.8 million outpatient visits, over 110000 admissions and more than 65000 operations.

In this new era, under the leadership of the Party Committee of the PLAGH, aiming at building a first-class modern research-based hospital and following the principle of "being the leading force in the army, a first-class hospital in China and a high-level medical care provider in the world", the medical workers of the hospital have promoted the concept of scientific development and social harmony and written a new chapter about the achievements of the hospital.

Department of General Surgery
The Dept. of General Surgery is ranked as National Clinical Key Specialty, National Key Disciplines (developing), the Institute of the PLA General Surgery and Beijing Key Disciplines.  The subspecialty includes digestive tumor surgery, hernia surgery, breast surgery, retroperitoneal tumor surgery, metabolic surgery and military medicine.  Annually, there are about 1000 gastrectomy, including open surgery and minimally invasive surgery.  Based on the first da Vinci robot system in China and guided by the minimal invasive therapeutic strategy, the Dept. of General Surgery is featured by two-dimensional and three-dimensional laparoscopic technology, and da Vinci robotic surgery.  Up to now, there are thirteen qualified surgeons for laparoscopy surgery with about a total of eight hundred cases annually, and ten qualified for robotic surgery. The Dept. of General Surgery has conducted the first robot-assisted gastrectomy and the first robot-assisted radical resection of rectal cancer and the first robot-assisted hiatal hernia repair combined with fundoplication in China.  Currently, the Dept. of General Surgery has conducted more than six hundred robot-assisted surgery.  Notably, the Chair of Dept. of General Surgery, Prof. CHEN Lin, formulate the Expert Consensus on Robotic Gastrectomy of China.  Prof. Chen has presided many clinical trials such as neoadjuvant chemotherapy, GP96 autologous immune vaccine therapy and minimally invasive surgery.  Several studies have been reported as Oral or Poster Presentation in SAGES Annual Meeting and ASCO-GI, and have published in the journal of SurgEndosc.

Website: http://www.301hospital.com.cn/
Address: #28 Fu-Xing Road, Hai Dian District, Beijing 100853, P.R. China

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Hongqing Xi, M.D.
Department of General Surgery
Chinese PLA General Hospital
E-mail: xihongqing@126.com

Zhongshan Hospital is a comprehensive teaching hospital affiliated to Fudan University. Founded in 1937, the hospital was the first large-scale general hospital managed by Chinese people.

With nearly 80 years’ development, the headquarter of Zhongshan Hospital now covers an area of 96,501.6 square meters, while the total construction area of the hospital reaches 326,955.28 square meters. It has 1,905 regular hospital beds. In the year of 2015, the hospital has handled 3,477,800 outpatient and emergency visits, discharged 99,000 patients and received 69,800 hospitalized patients for surgery. The hospital possesses a wide range of specialties and subspecialties with strong comprehensive strength. The hospital has 18 specialties under National Construction Projects of Key Clinical Specialties, Such as, Gastroenterology, Clinical Laboratory, Clinical Nursing, General Surgery, ICU, Oncology, Medical Imaging et al. The hospital has a number of advanced medical equipments, including Tomotherapy, PET-CT, 320-row and 640-slice high speed spiral CT,  tablet-style DSA, linear accelerator, 3.0T MRI, DVSS, SPECT, DR, ICU, Distance Medical Education System and so on. As Shanghai’s first HIMSS EMRAM certified Level-6 hospital, Zhongshan Hospital endeavors to build up and perfect the clinical information system based on electronic medical records and independently create a “Digital Hospital”.

Gastric cancer center
Zhongshan Hospital focuses on diagnosis and treatment of Gastric cancer. Taking advantage of the integrated strength of Departments of Surgery, Medical Oncology, Endoscopy Center, Pathology, Radiotherapy and Radio & Image, it endeavored to build up a multidisciplinary treatment model at 2012. It took the lead in China in setting up a multidisciplinary discussion clinic of tumor in order to explore the best treatment mode and sequence. Based on this, Gastric cancer center was founded in 2015. Each year, we had carried out over 10000 cases of gastroscopy, 2000 cases of endoscopic minimally invasive diagnosis and treatments. The center also treats over 8,000 outpatients and 1,500 gastrointestinal operations per year including minimally invasive surgery such as Laparoscopic surgery.

In addition to our clinical practice, our center participate or take the lead of many international/national multi-center clinical trials, including, CLASS-01, CLASS-02,Neo-classic，Ahead-G301，JACOB，RESOLVE study etc. Meanwhile, our center has achieved rich experience in exploration of translational research on tumor associated molecular markers, study of the perioperative treatment strategy for gastric cancer, research on advanced gastric cancer drugs, prediction of chemosensitivity of malignant tumors, targeted cancer therapy and biological immunotherapy, and has formed its own academic research foundation.

Adhering to its “patient-centered” spirit and advocating its motto of being “rigorous, pragmatic, united and dedicated”, Zhongshan hospital endeavors to build itself into an Asian leading and internationally renowned hospital with its rigorous professional style, exquisite medical skills and strict scientific management.

Website: http://www.zs-hospital.sh.cn/
Address: #180 Feng-Lin Road, Xu Hui District, Shanghai 200032, P.R. China

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Yiyi Yu
Department of Medical oncology
Zhongshan hospital Fudan university
E-mail: yu.yiyi@zs-hospital.sh.cn

Hongshan Wang
Department of General Surgery
Zhongshan hospital Fudan university
E-mail: Wang.hongshan@zs-hospital.sh.cn

Tongji Hospital, founded in 1900, is a comprehensive teaching hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Including three districts, it contains 6,000 beds, 62 clinical and medical departments, 8 national key disciplines and 30 national key clinical specialists. It is one of the top 10 comprehensive hospitals in China, and ranks first in Central China.

Division of GI Surgery is one of the earliest special clinic departments in Tongji hospital, and the first batch national key discipline. We primarily focus on the treatment and research of tumor in stomach, small intestine, colon, rectum and anus etc. The excellent medical service will be given by normative radical operation (systemic lymph clearance in record); automatic minimally invasive surgery advanced internationally (laparoscope) and individual post-surgery treatment (tumor chemosensitivity).

Division of GI Surgery undertake many national key research projects, including key projects of national natural science foundation; clinical key projects of ministry of health (three times), and national 973 tumor project, etc. The director Professor Jianping Gong received the National Science Found for Distinguished Young Scholars of China. Our group is one of the most important platforms in the field of cell cycle and apoptosis, which dedicated to studying the signal transduction pathway, the molecular mechanism of tumor metastasis, cell cycle and apoptosis, and so on.

Our division is one of the earliest centers for laparoscopic minimally invasive surgery, and we will host the 3rd Chinese Summit of GI Laparoscopy (CSGIL) in April, 2017. Under the leadship of Professor Jianping Gong, we originally proposed “membrane anatomy”, discovered the evidence of “metastasis V” and “cancer leakage”. Based on these findings, we further established an optional surgical approach, namely laparoscopic D2 lymphadenectomy with complete mesogastrium excision (D2+CME) for gastric cancer. D2+CME has been proven safe and effective based our RCT result (NCT01978444).

We warmly welcome doctors, researchers and other professionals to visit our departemnt via the VPCI program. Detailed or personalized visiting plan can be arranged after further contact with us.

Hospital Website: http://english.tjh.com.cn/
Address: 1095 Jiefang Av. Wuhan 430030, China.
Visiting Duration: 10 – 30 April, 2017

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Aitang Xiao, M.D.
Division of GI Surgery
Tongji Hospital
E-mail: pekjean@126.com

Founded in 1931, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medicine University is a Grade Three Class A comprehensive hospital integrating medical treatment, medical education, scientific research, rehabilitation and health care with striking character of tradition Chinese medicine. The hospital is well known nationwide for its longest history and largest scale with the best technical capacity in Zhejiang Province, and its obvious advantages of combination of Chinese Medicine with western medicine.

The hospital is located in Downtown Hangzhou, near the beautiful West Lake. Occupying 6.13 hectares of land, with 102,000 square meters of floor space for medical service, the hospital holds 1500 inpatient beds, 31 inpatient-wards, and 167 specialized clinics. It has 1800 medical professionals including 685 professional nurses and 560 Medical doctors. Among them, 300 are senior medical personnel, 17 are State Level Prominent TCM Professionals and 39 are Provincial Level Prominent TCM Professionals. The hospital has 1 mobile postdoctoral education station, 3 Medical PhD education centers and 9 master degree education centers; which are authorized by State Ministry of Education.

After extensive clinical practice, the hospital has formed three strong technical forces in the fields of traditional Chinese medicine, western medicine and combination of both. It has achieved a national advanced level.

Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery
Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery is the national standardization training center of gastric cancer surgery, the laparoscopic training center of Zhejiang Province and the main unit of Zhejiang Anticancer Association of Gastric Cancer Surgery Group. There are currently 15 doctors, 7 of whom have senior titles. Finishing nearly 400 cases of gastric cancer surgery, 200 cases of colorectal cancer surgery and 60 cases of pancreaticoduodenal resection and the minimally invasive surgery has a wide range of influence in the province, greatly improving the quality of life of patients.

Research in the department has grown tremendously these years. More than 20 items of research are ongoing and many of them are supported by Nation-funded research grants or Province-funded research grants. Under the discipline of the Conversion Treatment Center of Advanced Gastric Cancer, we have carried out a number of multi-center clinical studies focus on the conversion treatment of advanced gastric cancer. By the end of 2016, clinical study NCT02529878 has showed a great effect in advanced gastric cancer.

Over the last decade, the department have accumulated a lot of experience of combined multiple organs resection, offer training opportunities for young surgeons and now the department is in the leading position in China.

Website: http://www.zjhtcm.com
Address: Youdian Road 54#, Hangzhou, 310006, Zhejiang, China.

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Jiahui Chen M.D.
Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medicine University
Youdian Road 54#, Hangzhou, 310006, Zhejiang, China
E-mail: chenjh@zcmu.edu.cn

Spearheading clinical research in gastroenterology in China, the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University is well known for its high academic and clinical standards. It is striving to become a modern general hospital with a global reputation.

The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU), also called Guangdong Gastrointestinal Hospital, is a large, first-class hospital in southern China. A general hospital with excellent clinical resources, it has 1,200 beds, two-thirds of which are for patients with gastrointestinal diseases. More than 15,000 gastrointestinal operations are performed at the hospital each year.

After extensive clinical practice, the hospital has formed three strong technical forces in the fields of traditional Chinese medicine, western medicine and combination of both. It has achieved a national advanced level.

Treating gastrointestinal conditions
The hospital is well known for its expertise in gastrointestinal and colorectal surgery. Its gastroenterology is rated as a national key subject, while several of its main subjects under general surgery have been recognized as key medical specialties of Guangdong province since 2009 and as national key clinical specialties by the Chinese Ministry of Health since 2012. The hospital headed the compilation of the 2010 and 2015 editions of Therapeutic standards of colorectal cancer and the 2010 edition of Guidelines for the diagnosis and comprehensive treatment of liver metastasis of colorectal cancer. It has greatly contributed to China’s progress in standardizing the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal conditions. The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of SYSU was selected to be the chair institution for colon, rectum and anus surgery by the Chinese Society of Surgery. It was also chosen to be the chief editor institution for the eighth edition of the state-compiled textbook Surgery.

Top research facilities
The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of SYSU is home to the SYSU Research Institute of Gastroenterology (RIG; also known as the Institute of Gastroenterology of Guangdong Province), which houses the Guangdong Key Laboratory of Colorectal and Pelvic Floor Diseases. With a total area of 5,000 square metres, SYSU RIG has a central laboratory, a molecular diagnostic laboratory, a database centre, a tissue bank and a biotherapy centre. It currently has 45 scientists, including 14 professors and 16 associate professors, and its annual research budget exceeds 20 million RMB.

Collaboration and publications
SYSU RIG is active in international collaboration. Working with University of Washington (UW), it has established the SYSU–UW Institute for Translational Medicine. A research institute focusing on personalized medicine for gastrointestinal cancer has been set up in collaboration with Lee Hartwell, Nobel laureate and director of the Partnership for Personalized Medicine. A pelvic disease research centre has been established — the only one of its kind in China — with the assistance of a 3 million RMB donation from Masahiro Takano, a famous Japanese gastroenterologist. SYSU RIG has conducted innovative research on colorectal and pelvic diseases to address practical needs. Its researchers have published papers in high-profile international journals, including Cancer Cell, Gastroenterology and Gut. These studies provide a good foundation for setting up guidelines for diagnosing and treating gastrointestinal diseases. The hospital is the host institution for three journals: the Chinese version of Diseases of Colon and Rectum (official journal of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons and a world-leading publication on colorectal surgery), Chinese Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery (a national core journal included in PubMed, and rated among the top 200 medical science journals and the top three surgery journals in China) and Gastroenterology Report (listed in Science Citation Index in 2016)

Hospital Website: http://www.zs6y.com
Address: the 6th Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University No. 26 Yuancun Erheng Rd. Guangzhou, 510062, Guangdong Province, P.R.China

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Chunyu Chen M.D.
Floor 16B, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery
The 6th Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University No. 26 Yuancun Erheng Rd. Guangzhou, 510062, Guangdong Province, P.R.China
E-mail: sysuccy@163.com

The Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital is the birthplace of Oncology in China with a history of 156 years. The hospital was originally established in 1861 as British Army Hospital, and later renamed as London Christian Church Hospital and Dr.Machenzie Memorial Hospital. In 1997, the hospital affiliated to the Tianjin Medical University and was officially named as “The Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital (TMUCIH)”.

With a century and half history, TMUCIH has developed into a large specialized hospital with integrated patient care, education, training, research and prevention with 2426 beds, 45 clinical and diagnostic departments and 11 basic research departments. In 2013, TMUCIH was appointed as National Clinical Research Center for Cancer. The hospital covers area of 69,000 square meters and 200,000 square meters of the building area. TMUCIH has 2000 full-time staff members; among them are 275 senior professionals including an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, a Specially Appointed Professor and two Visiting Professors of National Yangtze Scholar Plan, 15 experts who enjoy Special Allowance of State Council and 6 Excellent Talents of New Century by Ministry of Education.

Chinese Anti-Cancer Association (CACA) was also established in TMUCIH in 1984. CACA has now developed 41 professional societies and 30 local anti-cancer associations around the China with a total membership exceeding 47000. Our hospital strives for exquisite skill, strict management and first class service and carry out hospital moto of “Providing patients with uttermost morality and state-of-art medicine and improving our profession with ingenuity and innovations”.

Department of Gastric Cancer
The department of gastric cancer diagnoses, treats and manages gastric cancers and cancer of digestive system and allied diseases. This multidisciplinary facility has specialized teams of oncological surgeons to handle malignancies of stomach, such as gastric cancer, gastric intestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) , gastric lymphoma and gastric carcinoids. Specialized services at the gastrointestinal oncological surgery include diagnosis, surgical treatment (Da vinci’s, laparoscopic and open gastrectomy with standard D2 lymphadenectomy), and inter-peritoneal hyperthermia plus chemotherapy for gastric cancer. Ongoing clinical trials cover a wide range of different regium of chemotherapy such as neo-adjuvant chemotherapy, adjuvant chemotherapy for patients with radical operation (D2), and gene-based therapies for treatment of advanced gastric cancer.

Collaboration and publications

SYSU RIG is active in international collaboration. Working with University of Washington (UW), it has established the SYSU–UW Institute for Translational Medicine. A research institute focusing on personalized medicine for gastrointestinal cancer has been set up in collaboration with Lee Hartwell, Nobel laureate and director of the Partnership for Personalized Medicine. A pelvic disease research centre has been established — the only one of its kind in China — with the assistance of a 3 million RMB donation from Masahiro Takano, a famous Japanese gastroenterologist. SYSU RIG has conducted innovative research on colorectal and pelvic diseases to address practical needs. Its researchers have published papers in high-profile international journals, including Cancer Cell, Gastroenterology and Gut. These studies provide a good foundation for setting up guidelines for diagnosing and treating gastrointestinal diseases. The hospital is the host institution for three journals: the Chinese version of Diseases of Colon and Rectum (official journal of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons and a world-leading publication on colorectal surgery), Chinese Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery (a national core journal included in PubMed, and rated among the top 200 medical science journals and the top three surgery journals in China) and Gastroenterology Report (listed in Science Citation Index in 2016)

In year of 2016, a total 1162 operations were performed and nearly 85% of them were gastric cancer last year, which shows a high level of specialization. With a standard D2 lymphadenectomy, more patients were benefit with a longer 5-year survival rate. It makes our department a leading character of our nation in the treatment of patients with gastric cancer.

We also do a lot of research work. In recent years, we hold 1 of National Basic Research Program (973 Program), 2 of National Natural Science Foundation, 3 of Provincial Research Programs, 1 of Tianjin anti-cancer special program. We have published 69 SCI articles in recent 5 years, the highest impact factor of them was 18.38. We also published and translated several books about gastric surgery, such as "Gastric Cancer", "Visual Lectures on Operation for Gastric Cancer", "Gastrointestinal Oncology - Principles and Practice" to share our experience of radical gastrectomy.

Meanwhile, our department attaches great importance to academic exchanges with domestic and foreign counterparts, the " Sino-Japan-Korea Gastric Cancer Summit Forum" we hosted has become a national well-known brand conference. Domestic and foreign counterparts a consistent high degree of praise and recognition to the clinical and research work of our department.

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Address: #1 Huanhuxi Road, Hexi District, Tianjin 300060, P.R. China
Visiting Duration: 24-28 April, 2017 (Detailed visiting schedule would be announced soon)

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Bin LI M.D.
Department of Gastric Cancer
Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital
#1 Huanhuxi Road, Hexi District, Tianjin 300060, P.R. China
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The department of surgical oncology, which belongs to The First Hospital of China Medical University, is the province's largest and most comprehensive medical and scientific research institution. The department was founded in 1958, is the earliest theraputic and research center of the gastrointestinal, colorectum and breast disease, which offers a full range of consultative, diagnostic and surgical treatments for cancer patients, subscribing to a "whole patient" treatment philosophy. A team of surgeon oncologists, pathologists, radiologists, and internal medicine specialists cooperate in the development of patient treatment plans. Including 49 dorctors, in which including 15 professors, 16 associate professors, 15 doctoral supervisors. The ward has 155 patients’ beds, diagnose and treat ten thousand patients of gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, breast cancer and other malignancies every year. 5-year survival rate of gastric cancer was 63.7%, approaching the international advanced level. Our Key Laboratory of Science and Technology Department of Liaoning Province has acquired 2 terms of national "863" High-tech Research and Development Program, "973" Key Basic Research and Development Program, 39 terms of the National Natural Science Foundation Project and 65 terms of other provincial research Foundation. Awarded National Science and Technology Progress Award 3 times, the Ministry of Education Science and Technology Progress Award 1 times, the Liaoning Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award 2 times, other provincial and ministerial level scientific and technological progress awards 11 times.

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Address: No. 155, Heping District, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, P.R.China.

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Jinyu Huang
The department of surgical oncology
The First Hospital of China medical University
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