Prof. Xu Kecheng interpreted the new concept of living with cancer at the book launch

In the morning of July 30, 2016, the book Living with Cancer written by Prof. Xu Kecheng, chief president of Jinan University School of Medicine affiliated Fuda Cancer Hospital and honorary president of Asian Society of Cryosurgery was launched at Guangzhou Book Center. The book launch was hosted by Guangzhou book center and Guangzhou Publishing House and was co-hosted by Jinan University School of Medicine Affiliated Fuda Cancer Hospital. At the book launch, Prof. Xu introduced to the public the concept of his new book Living with Cancer, meaning to make cancer a controllable chronic disease with elimination and reform.

According to statistics, there are 8,550 newly diagnosed cancer cases every day in China and one out of 7-8 people dies of cancer, which have made everybody become cancer-adverse. In this regard, Prof. Xu noted, “As cancer will become the main cause of human death in the future, it is not advisable to become cancer-adverse. Instead, in the fight against cancer, we should not only focus our attention on the tumor itself but also should regard the patient as a whole. Therefore, cancer should be comprehensively treated as a chronic disease with the approach of elimination and reform. ”

Since the initiation of Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital in 2003, Prof. Xu Kecheng has been taking advanced cancer patients as the main treatment object and taking prolonging patient’s life and improving their life quality as main targets. Under his leadership, Fuda Cancer Hospital took the lead in China to have introduced such advanced technologies as argon-helium cryosurgery and NanoKnife for cancer treatment and has thus formed its therapeutic characteristics featured with local ablation, microvascular intervention, and combined immunotherapy for cancer. A combination of local treatment and systemic treatment is designed to control the tumor and care for the patients so as to improve patients’ life quality and prolong their lifespan.

However, Xu Kecheng, who has been working in the cause of cancer treatment for several decades, was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma in 2006. He has been maintaining a positive attitude and cooperating with treatment since his cancer diagnosis. Ten years have passed, he is still healthy as he used to be. His cancer experience and years of clinical practice in cancer treatment have prompted him to write the book Living with Cancer. Prof. Xu Kecheng said his book is an attempt to make people realize that cancer is a type of chronic disease and cancer cells cannot be overkilled; cancer is not fearful as long as cancer patients can keep a positive attitude, uphold a correct concept, adopt innovative strategy and receive appropriate treatment, they can finally reach a peaceful coexistence with cancer. 

The book launch has attracted a large number of people at Guangzhou book center. Dr. Lin from Vancouver, Canada said he very much agrees with prof. Xu’s anti-cancer concept. He would buy 1,000 copies to spread the concept of living with cancer. He is also planning to translate the book from Chinese into English and brought it to Canadian doctors, enabling them to learn Chinese-style anti-cancer treatment.

Many citizens have had a new understanding of anti-cancer treatment after listening to prof. Xu’s lecture. Mr. Qiu said his father was newly diagnosed with lung cancer sizing up to 1.8cmx5.4cm and is asking around the best treatments possible. He was deeply inspired after listening to Prof. Xu’s interpretation of anti-cancer treatment and bought a copy on the spot. He is planning to use the ideas in the book to encourage his father to be strong and optimistic in the face of cancer.

Twenty-five experts of Jinan University attended conference at FUDA

Jinan University Medical School Scientific Research Cooperation Invitation Conference was held in the multi-purpose hall of Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital in the afternoon of March 30, 2016. Mr. Ye Wencai, the Vice President of Jinan University, designated Prof. Dong Jun, the Deputy Director of the Department of Clinical Medicine to attend the conference with a delegation of 25 experts, who have made in-depth exchanged with experts and doctors at FUDA on cryosurgery, NanoKnife therapy and immunotherapy for cancer.

In his welcome speech, Xu Kecheng, the Chief President of Fuda Cancer Hospital, expressed his hope to establish a research foundation with Jinan University with a view to enhance the basic and clinical scientific exchanges and cooperation and improve the level of oncobiology and clinical research of both sides. Prof. Dong Jun noted in her speech that “Fuda Cancer Hospital has been enjoying cutting-edge technology and a good social reputation for advanced cancer treatment, and rich resources in clinical cancer research. In March, leaders of both sides reached a consensus on enhancing the scientific and research cooperation in the field cancer treatment.” 

Prof. Dong Jun is delivering a speech

At the conference, Prof. Niu Lizhi, the Executive President of Fuda Cancer Hospital introduced to the participants “The Application and Research of Cryosurgery and NanoKnife for Solid Tumors”; Prof. Piao Xianghao introduced to the participants “The Clinical Application and Research of Drug-loading Microsphere for Cancer Treatment”; Dr. Chen Jibing introduced to the participants immunotherapy for cancer. They have also made in-depth exchanged with experts from Jinan University.

 

Prof. Niu is introducing to the participants Cryosurgery and NanoKnife for cancer

Affiliated to Jinan University Medical School, Fuda Cancer Hospital is a JCI accredited hospital that is devoted to middle and advanced stage cancer treatment. Since its initiation, FUDA has been committing itself to developing the hospital through science and technology and gathered a group of scholars and experts at home and abroad for the exploration of ways for cancer treatments. FUDA has introduced the world’s most advanced technology for cancer treatment, including cryo-ablation, NanoKnife, etc. FUDA has been leading the way in the medical industry. The number of cryo-ablation for cancer that stands at over 10,000, ranking the first in the world; Cryosurgery for Cancer, the first monograph on cryosurgery in the world, has been published; New Technique of Cancer Ablation: Irreversible Electroporation, the first monograph on NanoKnife has been published; the number of NanoKnife done ranks the first in mainland China.

 

It is the technique feature of Fuda Cancer Hospital to choose for patients with multiple mini-invasive treatments or sequence treatments that includes cryo-ablation, NanoKnife, immunotherapy (including cancer stem cell vaccine, CAR-T, NK, etc.), cancer microvascular intervention and TCM therapy according to particular cases. The technique feature has allowed for thousands of middle and advanced stage cancer patients improved quality of life and prolonged lifespan. In 2010, Fuda Cancer Hospital became one of the National Key Clinical Cancer Specialized Centers designated by the Ministry of Health and Guangdong Key Clinical Cancer Specialized Centers.

 

As the first few hospitals that introduced NanoKnife in mainland China in 2002, Fuda Cancer Hospital has completed the most cases of cryosurgery in the world as of today. FUDA has been successively awarded “Special Award of Merit for Cryosurgery” by International Society of Cryosurgery and “Outstanding Contribution Award” by Chinese Conference of Minimally Invasive Therapy in Oncology, etc. Fuda Cancer Hospital has been officially accredited by International Society of Cryosurgery as the Training Center of Cryosurgery in Asia Pacific.

 

Devoting to the concept of developing the hospital through science and technology, the medical team of FUDA has treated cases one after another that were claimed to be untreatable and incurable and thus has given many cancer patients a second life.

The First Wave of “Heart- Warming Action”—Giving Herbal Tea at Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital in Haizhu District, Which Attracted Hundreds of Residents

Recently, flu is ravaging. The number of flu patients’ admission at hospitals of Guangzhou increases dramatically.

According to the registered data of Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital out-patient department in Haizhu District, out-patient amount was more than 3000 person-time from February 29 to March 28, rising 67% from last month. Among the patients, most got flu.

In order to help neighbor residents prevent from flu, Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital out-patient department in Haizhu District held “Heart-Warming Action” of providing herbal tea that could prevent flu, testing blood pressure service and health consultation for neighbor residents. This activity attracted hundreds of people. 

There were so many people waiting in line for herbal tea before 9 am. They very appreciated this activity held by Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital. And they said: “The health care activity is very helpful in preventing flu. More such activities should be conducted.”

Neighbor residents were waiting in line for herbal tea.

Chief president of Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital Xu Kecheng also arrived at the scene and drank herbal tea with residents. “Flu is ravaging recently, take care of yourselves.” He told the residents kindly.

Knowledge of flu prevention in spring 

Director of Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital out-patient department in Haizhu District Zhang Jianhua said: “In spring, with the rise of temperature, everything rouses up from sleeping. The activities of pathogenic microorganisms such as virus, bacteria etc. are vibrant relatively. And the flu incidence rate is up to 5%~15%.”

What are the main symptoms of flu?

Director Zhang said: “The main symptoms of flu including intolerance of cold, cough, sore throat, running nose, headache courbature and arthralgia etc.”

How to judge whether you get flu? 

Director Zhang noticed that if you develop intolerance of cold, fever, headache and exhaustion, perhaps you get flu. Flu is self-limited. And generally, the patients get well on their own in three to five days. But if the symptoms are severe, please go to hospital for seeking doctor and taking medicine accordingly.

He said, there is no certain group of people susceptible to flu. However, children under 12 years old, old man and weak people are easier to get flu. And they are more likely to have complications after getting flu. For example, some patients with low immunity, long-term chronic respiratory diseases or cancer patients after having chemotherapy, they are susceptible to have pneumonia and vital myocarditis etc. It’s very dangerous.

Is there any way of flu prevention in spring?

1. Keep good health habits. Wash your hands before meal. After using the toilet, remember wash hands. And wash your hands after sneezing, coughing, cleaning of nose and coming back home. Don’t spit. Clothes and quilts should be changed, washed and hanged out regularly.

2. As for infectious respiratory disease, most effective way is keeping indoor air circulate well. Open the window and ventilate the windows. It’s better than air disinfectant.

3. Avoid going to populated public places with poor ventilation.

4. Go to outside to inhale fresh air. Do exercise such as walk, yoga, and gymnastics and so on for stretching and strengthening physique. 

5. Have a regular life. Receiving enough sleep is important to improve immunity.

6. Change clothes according to temperature. Don’t reduce too many clothes suddenly.

7. Don’t take spicy and greasy foods. More water and choose lean meat, eggs, honey and fresh vegetables. 

8. If you have respiratory disease, seek a doctor as soon as possible. Don’t take medicine casually.

Mr. Liu Jianguo, General Manager of Fuda Cancer Hospital, Awarded Excellent President of Canton Hospital

2016 marks the first year of the implementation of the Thirteenth Five-year Plan. Guangdong provincial party committee and Guangdong provincial government have put forward for the first time the strategy of building “a province with strong public health program”, which marks that the public health program in Guangdong has entered a new era of development. To better implement the requirement of the strategy proposed by Guangdong provincial party committee and Guangdong provincial government and give full play to the advantages and function of industrial association, Guangdong Province Hospital Association held the Second Session of the 9th Representative Congress of Guangdong Province Hospital Association in Guangzhou from March 24 to March 25, 2016 & 2016 Academic Annual Conference.
  

The academic annual conference centered on the theme of how to build a province with strong public health program and discussed the opportunities and challenges that hospitals will face, which has built a learning and communication platform for member units. The annual conference invited Huang Fei, deputy director of the Health and Family Planning Commission of Guangdong Province as the guest speaker, who has made a wonderful interpretation of the public health policy in Guangdong. Dr. Zhu Hengpeng, Deputy Director of the Institute of Economics Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Director of the Public Policy Research Center was also invited as the guest speaker, who discussed with the participating guests the development of public hospital during the thirteenth-five year plan period from two aspects of policy interpretation and trend analysis.

The annual conference also witnessed the prize presentation of the 2015 “Sunny Cup” Excellent President of Canton Hospital. Mr. Liu Jianguo, the General Manager and Secretary of the Party Committee of Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital was awarded Excellent President of Canton Hospital.

Award ceremony speech: being a master of scientific management, he has led the medical staffs of the hospital to build an internationalized, high-end and academic specialized cancer hospital with “3C+P” as the core treatment model for cancer, making it a banner of private hospital in Guangdong and China at large. He is the General Manager of Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital.

It is reported that Guangdong Provincial Hospital Association has started the selection of "Sunny Cup" Excellent President and Excellent Management Staff of Canton Hospital since 2011. Every year, 15 excellent presidents and 20 excellent management staffs of canton hospital from the member units of Guangdong will be selected by employer reference, the agreement of the superior department, preliminary evaluation of Guangdong Provincial Hospital Association. The selection is designed to commend the management staffs in hospitals who are able to make innovation management and determined reform in the development course of hospital. It is also designed to encourage management staffs of canton hospitals to make continued contribution to improve medical service quality and management level.

Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital, Beijing Genomics Institute Join Hands for Cancer Treatment

In the morning of March 16, 2016, Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital and BGI (Beijing Genomics Institute) Group signed a Strategic Alliance Agreement with an aim of enhancing the cooperation between the two sides to make a breakthrough in performing accurate cancer treatment and implementing effective postoperative monitoring. BGI enjoys enormous advantages in the building and application of big platform while its research on diseases needs data support and intellectual support from hospital. The marriage between FUDA and BGI is of great importance to improve the cure rate of cancer and bring benefits to the society in the end.

Since its initiation in 1999, BGI has developed itself into the biggest genomic research center in the world. It has carried out research on over 12,000 samples of more than 20 types of cancer at home and abroad. At present, it has developed cooperation with more than 100 scientific research centers and more than 20 enterprises and institutions. It has launched research on birth defect, metabolic disease and malignant tumors. Hence, it hopes to cooperate with Fuda Cancer Hospital to launch Cross-Omics Plan on One Million Cases of Tumors so as to realize the calibration, qualitative determination, location, quantification, timing and strategy-making for tumors. 

Zhao Lijian, Vice President of BGI noted that conventional treatments for cancer, such as operation, chemotherapy, etc. cannot eliminate cancer radically. The scientific treatment method should be to identify the type of cancer from diagnosis and then analyze at the genetic level which drugs that are most suitable for the type of cancer diagnosis. “Beyond that, we hope to be able to identify the possibility of tumor recurrence and metastases by non-invasive gene test, which is easy in operation and low in cost.”

Xu Kecheng, Chief President of Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital noted that over the past ten years, Fuda Cancer Hospital has been committing to treat advanced cancer--a difficult medical problem in the world with “3C+P” treatment model dominated by cryosurgical ablation (CSA), cancer microvascular intervention (CMI) and combined immunotherapy for cancer (CIC) with an aim of prolonging patients~ life and improving their quality of life. FUDA has been leading the world in terms of the number of cases and types of cancer that CSA has treated; FUDA has also made breakthrough achievements in treating central lung cancer, great hepatic carcinoma, and pancreatic cancer with CSA, which has won several awards for FUDA at home and abroad. In June, 2015, FUDA introduced NanoKnife equipment from America and carried out the first NanoKnife on pancreatic cancer in mainland China on July 2, 2015. As of now, FUDA has completed 100 cases of NanoKnife, the number of which ranks the first in China.

Xu Kecheng noted that Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital has established its own cancer institute with its own scientific research team. FUDA-BGI strategic alliance allows experts on both sides to carry out concrete discussion on the cooperation vision and feasibility of the building and application of tumor sample data base, tumor detection at molecular level and the screening and early warning of high risk group by combining cancer high incidence scene and high-throughput sequencing.

Meeting Held by Chinese Association for Promotion on Health Ideology and Culture Ending with Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital Being Praised for its Achievement

From 26th to 27th February, Chinese Association for Promotion on Health Ideology and Culture Promotions-general Meeting in conjunction with Work Innovation Communication Meeting was convened at Guangzhou.The meeting was organized by Chinese Association for Promotion on Health Ideology and Culture and undertaken by Guangdong Province Association for Promotion on Health and Family Planning Ideology and Culture, which was supported by Jinan University Medical School Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital. More than 200 leaders from Health and Family Planning Commission all over the country (absence of Tibet’s candidates), Association for Promotion on Health Ideology and Culture, branches, medical institutes of Guangdong Province and medical schools gathered at the meeting.]

Main content of the meeting including: citing good suggestions for work innovation, communicating experience of work innovation, learning the working mode of Guangzhou Association for Promotion on Health and Family Planning Ideology and Culture, watching the brand development of “Guangdong Doctors” and hosting special training on party construction etc. Then, representatives discussed how to do a better work of Health and Family Planning System’s ideology and culture development and how to understand the recognition, conceptions, methods and direction of Association for Promotion on Health Ideology and Culture. In recent years, Guangdong Health and Family Planning System and Guangdong Association for Promotion on Health Ideology and Culture develop the culture brand “Guangdong Doctors”. The ways and achievement get recognition and praise.


As a private hospital, Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital helped to hold this national grade meeting successfully. At the end of the meeting, Zhang Jian, secretary general of Chinese Association for Promotion on Health Ideology and Culture specially mentioned on his letter of thanks released at the public: Thanks for contributions of Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital high-level team with elaborate work.

Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital Holding Free Clinic for Sending Health to Neighbor Residents

In the morning of 27th February, weather got nicer since it had kept cloudy for a week. And it became hilarious at Happiness Square of Tangde Garden in Tianhe District. Walking out of office, doctors of Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital went into neighbor community for holding free clinic, spreading knowledge about how to prevent common disease and cancer, popularizing National Health Insurance Policy and facilitating residents to make FUDA as National Health Insurance fixed hospital.

Cardiovascular and kidney expert Liu Yang, director of pain management department Yang Qingfeng, director Cancer Prevention and Rehabilitation Center Dr. Li Jialiang and doctors from internal medicine department, traditional Chinese medicine department, gynecological department and stomatological department answered people’s health questions and provided medical advice patiently.

Scene of free clinic

Chief president Xu Kecheng answering residents’ questions patiently.

Chief president Xu Kecheng being interviewed by reporter of TV station

An aunt talking with Chinese medicine physical therapist: Joints become stiff when people get older. Thank you for your cupping for me.

Nurse taking residents’ blood pressure while reminding tirelessly: You just walk some distance. Please have a rest. It will more the test result more accurate.

“Role model of the times”, chief president of Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital Xu Kecheng also went to the site of free clinic and solved people’s problem about cancer prevention. In an interview with reporters of Guangdong TV Station and Guangzhou TV Station, he said that cancer has been the leading killer nowadays, but people still lack of awareness. Medical technology becomes more and more advanced. For example, except three conventional cancer treatments including surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy, there are cryoablation, nanoknife therapy (irreversible electroporation), immunotherapy etc. But these are just remedies. Taking preventive measures is the key.

Taking example for lung cancer, the No.1 killer, Xu Kecheng said, whether man or woman, morbidity and mortality of lung cancer is highest. Lung cancer prevention demands all man to quit smoking. Meanwhile, related departments of the government should take actions to improve air quality and reduce haze pollution. Besides, people should attach importance to screening for cancer prevention. Having treatment early makes difference on treatment effect.

“Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital often holds free clinic which is aim at raising residents’ awareness of prevention and passing more health knowledge to them. Every Thursday and Saturday morning, I organize free clinic at FUDA, which is for realizing my desire for serving more patients.”