Yang Qunying

Biography

Prof. Yang is a specialist in neurosurgery and neuro-oncology chemotherapy as well as a member in the glioma single disease expert group at Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center. In 2012, she studied clinical neuro-oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center which ranks first in tumor combination therapy in America. In 2013, she served as a visiting scholar at the Neurosurgery and Brain Tumor Center of Prince of Wales Hospital, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and was engaged in the clinical work on neuro-oncology. She has been engaged in clinical chemotherapy and combination therapy of various malignant tumors for over ten years. Through diagnosis and treatment on quite a number of brain metastasis and primary brain tumor patients, she has carried out a series of studies and exploration on nervous system tumors. She is one of the first batch of specialists in neuro-oncology chemotherapy in China. She has rich experience in chemotherapy of primary central nervous system tumor, brain metastasis and children and teenager malignant tumors. She is skilled in chemotherapy and individualized combination therapy for brain glioma, brain germ cell tumor, medulloblastoma, primitive neuroectodermal tumor, neuroblastoma, primary central nervous system lymphoma, malignant meningioma, ependymoma and brain metastasis, etc. She has been in charge of holding six "National Neuro-oncology Chemotherapy and Molecularly Targeted Drug Therapy Study Group" (national level continuing medical education program) since 2007. She has participated in a number of multi-centric clinical trials of anti-tumor new drug (cytotoxic drug and molecularly targeted therapy drug) in and outside China. She has received a number of scientific research funds from National Natural Science Foundation of China, project of Development Center for Medical Science and Technology, Ministry of Health, P.R.China, project of Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology, scientific research project of Health Department of Guangdong Province, project funded by Guangdong Provincial Association for Science and Technology (fund for young and middle-aged scientists and technicians to go abroad to participate in international academic conferences), and fund for scientific research on single diseases of Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center. She is the Chief Editor of Handbook of Nervous System Tumor Chemotherapy. She also participated in the compilation of books such as Nervous System Tumors, and Clinical Practice Guidelines for Central Nervous System Tumors. And she has published over 30 papers in SCI journals and Chinese core journals.

Research Interest

Chemotherapy, molecularly targeted therapy and combination therapy for nervous system tumors.