中国肿瘤防治联盟

Union of Chinese Oncology Management

UNION OF CHINESE ONCOLOGY MANAGEMENT (UCOM)

INTRODUCTION

           Cancer is a global threat to human health. Despite the treatment advances, it remains as one of the most important economic issue and major public health concern. Cancer prevention and management posing a major challenge in China as the incidence rates continue to rise. In view of this, a national scientific platform for cancer prevention and control has been drawn up, namely the Union of Chinese Oncology Management (UCOM). Its objective is to unite the greater academic community, carry out high quality clinical multi-center research and develop a multi-level MDT platform combined with information technology; with an aim to formulate better guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of various tumours. In particular, to coordinate early screening programmes and advance the existing platform for cancer prevention and management to reduce the cancer burden. The establishment of the UCOM is a response to the “Notice on Intensifying the Standardization of Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy” issued conjointly by the National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People’s Republic of China.

Founding members:

Ø  Prof. Ping Zhao (Director of the National Office for Cancer Prevention and Control, Board Chairman of Cancer Foundation of China in Peking);

Ø  Prof. Jia Fan (Chairman of the Chinese Society of Oncology of the Chinese Medical Association, President of Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital in Shanghai);

Ø  Prof. Ruihua Xu (President of Sun Yat–Sen University Cancer Center in Guangzhou);

Ø  Prof. Xiaoshun He (Vice President of the Guangdong Province Hospital Association and Chairman of the Society of Oncology, Vice President of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou).

UCOM affiliation: Cancer Foundation of China;

                Chinese Hospital Association.

UCOM constitution:

                National UCOM Chairman;

                National Executive Chairman;

                National Vice Chairman;

                Secretary General;

                24 Provincial UCOM: Chairman, Vice Chairman;

                6 National Committees;

                16 Provincial Committees.

UCOM committees:

1.      Brain Malignancies Committee

2.      Nasopharyngeal Cancer Committee

3.      Oral Neoplasm Committee

4.      Thyroid Cancer Committee

5.      Esophageal Cancer Committee

6.      Breast Cancer Committee

7.      Colorectal Cancer Committee

8.      Lung Cancer Committee

9.      Biliary tract and Pancreatic Cancers Committee

10.  Hepatic Cancer Committee

11.  Gastric Cancer Committee

12.  Gynecologic Cancers Committee

13.  Genitourinary Cancers Committee

14.  Hematologic Malignancies Committee

15.  Bone Cancer Committee

16.  Skin and Soft Tissue Cancers Committee

17.  Cancer Nursing Committee

18.  Administration Committee

19.  Committee on Nutrition for Cancer

20.  Cancer Rehabilitation Committee

21.  Intensive Care Committee

22.  Medical Informatics Committee

UCOM members: 17,000 people;

                6,523 Directors and Deputy directors of departments;

                 450 Presidents and Vice Presidents of hospitals.

Figure 1. Distribution of UCOM members in China. Blue shows already established provinces. Red shows non-established provinces.

UCOM Mission:

• To form an oncologists union in China, and unite the cancer prevention and management community;

• To establish a tumor management platform, broaden the use of information technology including the internet, big data, cloud computing, mobile together with media, pharmaceutical to achieve precision medicine;

•  To promote cancer prevention, advance cancer treatment, and achieve cancer curation.

UCOM services for the members and patients:

•      Mobile scientific research platform: The clinician will be released from routine patient care, focusing on scientific research including data collection, statistical analysis and paper publication.

•      Online Medical Education: To utilise a variety of intelligent learning terminal (PC, Mobile, Pad, TV) with full learning support platform (online VOD, online live, mobile phone, free course) and course security protection (dynamic video encryption, offline playback verification) to achieve an online oncology school (video link, internal / external training combination).

•      Online Professional Workshop: A tool designed for mobile communication between UCOM doctors and regional/county doctors. UCOM doctors can use the on the go device to assist regional doctors in dealing with difficult cases in real time.

•      Mobile MDT APP: The MDT APP is a multi-disciplinary consultation platform. It provides the best personalized and precision medical services for patients. With the APP, patients can ask for a multi-disciplinary consultation at any time and place, which will then be sent out to all qualified MDT consultation doctors in the union, just like “UBER”!

•      Community hospital-based early screening for cancer: We have established our medical service network with over 25,000 community health-care centers in China. This includes more than 2580 centers in the Guangdong province. The health care services are covered by the top 10 insurance companies including China Life, Taiping Life and TaiKang Life, which includes over 2000 insurance brokers and business clients.