President Wang Xingpeng Employed as Vice Chairman of Specialized Pancreatic Disease Committee of Chinese Medical Doctor Association

In recent days, the Specialized Pancreatic Disease Committee of Chinese Medical Doctor Association was officially founded. President Wang Xingpeng of our hospital was employed as the Vice Chairman of the first committee.

Pancreas as one of the most important organs of human body has the endocrine function. However, it's very hard to be clinically diagnosed and treated due to its deep position and unclear pathogenesis. Acute pancreatitis is a common disease of the internal medicine. It also occurs with multiple organ failure, which is characterized by serious condition, rapid change, difficulty in treatment and high death rate. Chronic pancreatitis, irreversible, always occurs with intractable pain, serious malnutrition and diabetes. As the lesion prior to pancreatic cancer, it needs to be treated with medicine for life. Pancreatic cancer, called "king of cancers", has a survival rate of less than 5% in 5 years.

We are always characteristic in the field of pancreatic disease. The Clinical Medical Center for Digestive Disease of our hospital is now Shanghai Key Lab for Pancreatic Disease Study
and Pancreatic Disease Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. There are Standing Committee Member of Digestive Disease Branch of Chinese Medical Association and leader of Pancreatology Group. In addition, the Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Center of Shanghai Jiao Tong University is attached to it. The Clinical Medical Center for Oncology is the Chairman Unit of Expert Committee for Pancreatic Cancer of CSCO and took charge of compiling the Consensus of Chinese Experts on Diagnosis and Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer of version 2014.