2025 National Major Public Health Project - Early Detection & Treatment of Rural Upper GI Cancer Launched in Xiying Town, Wuwei.
Gansu Province is a high-incidence and high-mortality area for cancer, particularly notable for esophageal and gastric cancer. Here is the English translation of the provided text:
Gansu Province is recognized as a high-incidence and high-mortality region for cancer, with esophageal cancer and gastric cancer being particularly prominent. Statistics indicate that the incidence and mortality rates of gastric cancer in our province rank first nationwide, making it a major disease with distinct regional characteristics that seriously threatens people's health and constrains socio-economic development. In 2009, Wuwei City was designated as a screening site for early diagnosis and treatment of gastric cancer through central fiscal transfer payments. In 2010, it was designated as a screening site for early diagnosis and treatment of esophageal and cardia cancer, and in 2012, it was designated as a screening site for early diagnosis and treatment of upper gastrointestinal cancer. Gansu Wuwei Cancer Hospital, as the implementing unit, has been conducting screening projects for 15 years, not only cultivating a professional technical team for the city but also effectively promoting the construction of a comprehensive prevention and treatment system for upper gastrointestinal cancer in our city.
On the morning of January 10, 2025, Gansu Wuwei Cancer Hospital held the launch meeting for the 2025 Rural Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer Early Diagnosis and Treatment Project in Xiying Town, Liangzhou District, Wuwei City, at the fourth-floor conference room of the Xiying Town Government. Attendees included Deputy Director Nie Peng and Director Lu Linzhi of the Gastroenterology Department I, project staff from the Public Health Department of Gansu Wuwei Cancer Hospital, Deputy Party Secretary and Town Chief Liang Wanzan of Xiying Town, village committee secretaries and directors, heads of village clinics, and health professionals from Xiying Town.
At the launch meeting, Town Chief Liang Wanzan urged village committee cadres in Xiying Town to organize diligently and complete project work with quality and quantity assured. He also requested village doctors to widely promote this beneficial project of early diagnosis and treatment screening for upper gastrointestinal cancer, further enhancing their service capabilities in handling practical matters for the masses. Deputy Director Nie Peng of our hospital pointed out that the project leadership team must carry out work strictly in accordance with project technical operation specifications to ensure project quality. He required the project leadership team to carefully sort out work processes, improve the satisfaction of eligible populations participating in the project, ensure medical safety, and provide full-chain project services for the masses to ensure early detection, diagnosis, and treatment. Director Lu Linzhi, head of the Rural Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer Early Diagnosis and Treatment Project technical team and Director of the Gastroenterology Department I of Wuwei Cancer Hospital, conducted project training for attendees. Director Lu Linzhi explained the project background, the significance of project work, and how to carry out project work from three aspects.
The Rural Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer Early Diagnosis and Treatment Project, as a core component of the national major public health service special chronic disease prevention and control, bears the sacred mission of safeguarding people's lives and health, promoting the equalization of public health services, and comprehensively strengthening primary healthcare service capabilities. It is a livelihood project that benefits the people. Our hospital will further promote the standardization of gastrointestinal cancer screening work, strive to advance the treatment of cancer, comprehensively enhance the level of early diagnosis and treatment, strive to achieve the goal of "double decreases in the incidence and mortality rates of gastrointestinal cancer, and double increases in early diagnosis and treatment rates and survival rates," and effectively protect the health of people throughout the city1.