Prof. Niu Lizhi, President of Fuda Cancer Hospital, Attended Singapore Congress of Radiology by Invitation

On February 18, 2016, Prof. Niu Lizhi, President of Fuda Cancer Hospital, Guangzhou, China attended Singapore Congress of Radiology & the 25th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Singapore Radiological Society at the invitation of the chairman of the conference. Around 100 renowned experts in the field of radiotherapy from China, America, England, France, Australia, Japan, South Korea and etc. are also invited to the congress for exchanges of and discussion on the achievement made and the future development of interventional radiology.

 

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A group photo of Prof. Niu Lizhi (R) with participating expert (picture 1 and picture 2)

 

 

A group photo of Prof. Niu Lizhi (L) and participating experts　　

In recent years, American doctors have been increasingly enthusiastic about cryotherapy for cancer. Many of them from world first class hospitals such as Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center were also gathered at the congress. Only two experts from mainland China were invited to the congress, one is Prof. Liang Ping from Chinese PLA General Hospital and the other is Prof. Niu Lizhi from Fuda Cancer Hospital, Guangzhou. Prof. Niu also served as the paper reviewer in charge of reviewing papers submitted by participating representatives.

At the conference, several well-known professors delivered reports on cryotherapy. Prof. Matthew shared his experience in treating about 1,000 cases of cancer with cryotherapy. Johns Hopkins Hospital and hospitals in France and Singapore have also applied cryoablation for cancer. Prof. Niu Lizhi presided over the penal discussion of ablation society and shared the experience of Fuda Cancer Hospital in conducting about 10,000 cases of cryosurgery.

A group photo of Prof. Niu Lizhi (M) with other participating guests at the welcome party　

In the evening of February 20, 2016, Prof. Niu attended the welcome party held by Singapore China Friendship Association. He introduced to Singaporean businessman and political officials the advanced technology and featured service offered by Fuda Cancer Hospital and then presented the book Living with Cancer wrote by Xu Kecheng, the chief President of FUDA, to the participating guests.

During the sidelines of the meeting, Prof. Niu visited a Singaporean patient who once hospitalized at Fuda Cancer Hospital. The patient had had primary lung cancer and the right lung had been removed. Unfortunately, left lung cancer recurrence was detected later. The Singaporean doctors were at a loss what to do. In August, 2014, the patient came to Fuda Cancer Hospital and underwent cryosurgery operated by Prof. Niu. The patient went back to Singapore after cryosurgery and he is in stable condition now.