Peking University, Apr. 28, 2011: Professor Chen Minhua, chief doctor of Peking University Cancer Hospital and Professor Tao Qimin, chief doctor of Peking University People’s Hospital were awarded a health prize.

Co-organized by the Publicity Department of Beijing Municipal Party Committee, Beijing Health Bureau, and Peking University Health Science Center, the awarding ceremony of the third “Top Ten Capital Health Guardians” selection was held at Cultural Center of Xicheng District, Beijing.

(Professor Chen Minhua receiving her award)

Professor Chen Minhua, an expert on hepatic carcinoma, has made great breakthrough in early diagnosis and minimally invasive ablation of liver cancer during the last decade. She has treated more than 1,200 patients. 47% of them survive five years afterwards, and she has remarkably raised the inactivation rate of cancer to 96%. Her work Radiofrequency Ablation of Liver Cancer is valued by experts worldwide. A patient of heart disease she herself is, she has long given up her pacemaker for fear that its frequency might disturb her research on radiofrequency ablation.

(Professor Tao Qimin receiving her award)

Professor Tao Qimin attended the awarding ceremony on wheelchair. Known as “mother of hepatitis B vaccine” in China, she has devoted to patients and research on hepatitis B.

At the end of the ceremony, representatives from Peking University Health Science Center expressed their resolution of a life-long devotion to medical science on behalf of all municipal medical staff.

Written by: Zhao Ning
Edited by: Chen Miaojuan
Source: PKU News (Chinese)