Tianjin Cancer Hospital was founded in 1861 as London Christian Church Hospital. After the founding of the People's Republic in 1950 it was renamed as Tianjin Municipal People's Hospital. In 1972 the hospital already specialized in treating cancer and had 341 beds at that time. Following the merger of various departments in 1977 and in 1987 the hospital was renamed again in 1996 as:
 

Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital
 

 
In everyday language people refer to the hospital as Tianjin Cancer Hospital.
 
The hospital has a land of 62,570 m2 - and has a 80,000 m2 of housing area.
There are 1,452 beds and 1,382 employees at the hospital.

The latest statistics from 2005 shows that there were:

227,815 patients in outpatient treatment
 
26,508 patients to treatment with hospitalization
 
10,103 patients received an operation

The hospital is divided into different sections, each with its own kind of cancer as a specialty. Each section consists of a chief / senior consultant, who has a certain number of doctors, nurses and service personnel under his/her authority.
 
The hospital will offer examinations and treatments with the use of latest technology in:
 
Radiotherapy, MRI scan, CT scan, PET CT scan, Cyber Knife, mammography and ultrasound scanning.

 

 

All types of examinations and treatments are performed in one place so you do not have to be transferred from one hospital to another to get different tests and treatments.
 
Tianjin Cancer Hospital is one of few hospitals in China, where everything is concentrated in one place.