Xie Fangyun
Chief physician
Radiation Oncology
Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center
China
Biography
Prof. Xie Fangyun was born in 1963. He completed his master's program from the former Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences, and has been engaged in medical treatment, teaching and scientific research at Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center for more than ten years. In 2011, he was engaged as chief physician at Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center. He specializes in radiotherapy for head and neck cancer, especially combination therapy for nasopharynx carcinoma.
Research Interest
He has participated in several major projects funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China and Ministry of Health. He has also published multiple lead journals of oncology such as Annals of Oncology, British Journal of Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Cancer Investigation on staging system, prognosis models, combination therapy and etc. of nasopharynx carcinoma. His research results on the relationship between smoking status and prognosis of nasopharynx carcinoma was considered to be profound discovery by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), and published as a key report on its website, which at the same time, brought extensive attention of media at home and abroad.
