Panyu Central Hospital in Guangzhou is seeking to partner with Barry J. Marshall, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 2005, to increase the hospital's diagnosis and treatment level in gastrointestinal diseases. 

The hospital will invite Marshall to give special lectures and share his discovery of Helicobacter pylori, as well as explore its pathogenic mechanisms and the current cutting-edge medical outlook for making food-based vaccines.

Barry J. Marshall, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 2005, delivers a speech. [Photo/Nanfang Plus]

Recently, the hospital was granted authorized membership in the National Early Gastrointestinal-Cancer Prevention and Treatment Central Alliance (GECA).

The hospital has established a digestive disease center with various disciplines, and set up a gastrointestinal disease specialist alliance with the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University. The center has successively carried out difficult endoscopic surgeries and endoscopic diagnosis projects which have improved the diagnosis rate of early digestive tract tumors.

Panyu Central Hospital gains authorized membership to the National Early Gastrointestinal-Cancer Prevention and Treatment Central Alliance (GECA). [Photo/Nanfang Plus]

According to the person-in-charge of the hospital, after becoming a member of the GECA, the hospital will further standardize relevant technologies, strengthen personnel training, and improve disease screening quality and promotion. In the future, it will develop a system of gastric cancer prevention and control to continuously improve the prevention, research, diagnosis, and treatment of digestive diseases.