Cancer Hospital Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS)

Originally called Ritan Hospital, the Cancer Hospital at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) was established in 1958. It is the first national hospital and remains the leading hospital among all cancer hospitals in China. It is also certified by the China Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a National Clinical Research Organization for Drugs and as the Cancer Quality Control Center of the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC). The Cancer Hospital integrates medical care, education, research, and prevention toaddress all aspects of cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

The clinical and technological departments of the Cancer Hospital cover a wide range of subject areas with technical sophistication, advanced equipment, and a superb medical environment. The numbers tell the story:

• Currently there are 15 clinical departments and nine medical technology departments that treat patients through radiation therapy, surgery, chemotherapy, interventional therapy, biological therapy, and other methods.
• The Cancer Hospital is the leading domestic center for the diagnosis and treatment of a variety of tumors, such as lung, liver, pancreatic, colorectal, breast, uterine, cervical, esophageal, head and neck, and malignant lymphoma.
• The Cancer Hospital has a high-energy two-photon medical linear accelerator, equipment for intensity-modulated radiation therapy, positron emission tomography-computed tomography, digital subtraction angiography, an automatic biochemical analyzer, nuclear magnetic resonance equipment, a tumor radiofrequency hyperthermia machine, an image-guided linear accelerator, flow cytometers, and other advanced equipment.
• It can serve 57,000 inpatients and 793,000 outpatients annually. Approximately 19,000 surgical operations were performed in 2015.

Phone number: 010-67781331

Address: NO.17 Panjiayuan, Beijing