First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University

The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, founded in 1910, is one of China's national regional medical centres and a high-volume surgical hospital with recognised gastrointestinal surgery (laparoscopic gastrectomy trials of the CLASS group), hepatobiliary and transplant, thyroid, urological and neuro-oncology services. Its Sixth Affiliated Hospital sister institution is one of China's largest colorectal centres. Investigators have led Chinese trials of perioperative chemotherapy and immunotherapy in gastric cancer and studies of organ preservation in rectal cancer. Patients can access SYSU's shared early-phase infrastructure across the university's hospitals.