2025/02/20
Shizuoka Cancer Center
On February 28, 2025, signing ceremony was held for a memorandum regarding friendship and cooperation between the Shizuoka Cancer Center and the Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, China (with Xiangdong Cheng, M.D., Ph.D. as president). Shizuoka prefecture and Zhejiang province signed on an agreement for friendly and cooperative ties in 1998, since when the friendly relationship has been enhanced especially with another agreement for friendship and cooperation in the medical and health field signed in 2012. Since then, the SCC has accepted the visits by the Zhejiang Provincial Health and Welfare Commission as well as some medical professionals from the province, and invited the president of the Zhejiang Cancer Hospital and the Deputy Director of the Zhejiang Health and Welfare Commission for the “Shizuoka Cancer Conference 2023” (March 2, 2023). In return, from the SCC side, Katsuhiko Uesaka, M.D., Ph.D., the president, Masanori Terashima, M.D., Ph.D., the deputy director, and Isamu Adachi, M.D., Ph.D., the advisor at the Division of Palliative Medicine were invited to visit the Zhejiang Cancer Hospital in June, 2023. The mutual understanding between the two hospitals has been continuously deepened, which brought about the realization of this memorandum. It aims at the friendly, long-term, stable development of the intercommunion and the collaborative alliance between both parties in cancer medicine and nursing as well as cancer researches.
