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Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

2019/07/05 | By CENS

Founded in 1976, non-profit Chang Gung Medical Foundation Chang Gung Memorial Hospital is currently Taiwan's biggest and offers the most complete medical services, with branches located in Keelung, Taipei, Linkou, Taoyuan, Yunlin, Chiayi and Kaohsiung. The hospital oversees cases ranging from emergency cases, chronic diseases, long-term healthcare, health preservation, and medical nursing education. Chang Gung provides patients of all ages and backgrounds with the most comprehensive care, in accordance to their needs, all the while upholding responsibilities to provide quality care, education and research as a general teaching hospital.

The featured service at the show is proton therapy, considered targeted treatment within radiation therapy: radiation doses are only directed towards cancerous spots and would not impact the surrounding healthy tissue. This would not only lower the chances of side-effects, improve living quality, but also increase doses to concentrate on certain areas and reap the benefits of less side-effects. In the past five years, Chang Gung has set up proton radiation therapy centers in Linkou in the north and Kaohsiung in the south, and has treated over 2,000 cancer patients since November 2015.

Aside from proton therapy, Chang Kung is also looking to refine cancer treatment by combining departments under the cancer center for general medicine, general surgery, radiation oncology, mematology oncology, imaging diagnosis and pathology. The multi-discipline team members include those with expertise in medical oncology, surgical

oncology, radiation oncology, hemato-oncology, medical imaging and pathology conduct interdisciplinary diagnosis and treatment evaluation, and would allow them to provide the best, customzied treatment such as surgery, targeted therapy, immunotherapy and proton therapy to cancer patients.

photo provided by Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
photo provided by Chang Gung Memorial Hospital