Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center (Chinese: 中山大学肿瘤防治中心;; pinyin: Zhōngshān Dàxué Zhǒngliú Fángzhì Zhōngxīn), abbreviated as SYSUCC, is a public hospital in Guangzhou, China.
Since the early 1950s and with the help of Ke Lin, the Dean of the Zhongshan Medical School, they later established the Tumor Hospital in South China.
According to the 2018 Nature Index report for global healthcare, the achievements of SYSUCC's active research environment were number 81 among the top 100 medical institutes in the world.
[9] "The Nature Index is a freely accessible database of author affiliation information collated from research articles published in an independently selected group of high-quality science journals.
"[10] SYSUCC hosts the State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China (SKL), which is national recognition for the highest degree of expertise.
In 2001, SYSUCC established a biobank to collect peripheral blood, bone marrow, and tissue samples after surgery, along with other clinical information from cancer patients.
[18][19][20] In 2004, SYSUCC set up a joint laboratory with the Karolinska Institutet of Sweden for research in immunotherapy, molecular virology and oncological epidemiology.
SYSUCC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the UK's University of Warwick in 2015, creating a partnership in cancer diagnosis, care and research.