State Key Laboratory of Market Supervision (Oncology Special Medical Food) inaugurated

(Health Times reporter Shi Mengzhu) On September 21, at the State Key Laboratory of Market Supervision (Cancer Special Medical Food) Construction Promotion Meeting and Unveiling Ceremony, Shi Hanping, director of gastrointestinal surgery and director of the Department of Clinical Nutrition of Beijing Shijitan Hospital, sighed: "This is a very fruitful year
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He has been approved to undertake 1 major special project of the Ministry of Science and Technology, won the first prize of the Science and Technology Award of the China Food Industry Association in 2022, hosted the China Oncology Nutrition Conference twice, published 28 SCI papers, and undertaken more than 10 scientific research projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Special medical food is of great significance for the treatment of cancer patients

According to the "Survey on the Nutritional Status of Patients with Common Malignant Tumors in China" issued by the Tumor Nutrition Professional Committee of the Chinese Anti-Cancer Association, the incidence of malnutrition in inpatients with malignant tumors in China is as high as 80%, and the incidence of moderate/severe malnutrition is as high as 58%.

"Whether it is deferred nutritional therapy or early nutritional therapy, for tumor patients, it is a solid foundation, and other treatments need to be based on good nutritional status to achieve better treatment results
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At the Center for Tumor Metabolism and Nutrition of Beijing Shijitan Hospital, the patient, Ms.

For more than a decade, Shi Hanping has been calling for nutritional therapy to be a first-line treatment, and patients should put nutritional therapy in the same important position as surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, targeted therapy and immunotherapy, and use special medical food as a "powerful weapon"
for nutritional therapy.

The development of special medicine has a long way to go in China

On September 6, 2021, the State Administration for Market Supervision and Administration issued the "State Municipal Supervision and Technology Finance Letter [2021] No.

"As a new product category, special medical food is neither a drug nor an ordinary food, the current problem is to require special medical food to be developed in accordance with the way of drugs, but it cannot obtain normal channels in the hospital like drugs, resulting in patients themselves needing, but many products can not reach the hands of patients, so it is necessary to jointly promote special medical food into hospitals, medical insurance, and basic drugs
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In Shi Hanping's view, the establishment of the key laboratory is not only of great significance for the treatment of cancer patients, in the next step, the laboratory will establish China's tumor special medical food standard system and technical system as the core, become an important platform for the research and development and application of China's tumor nutrition treatment technology, products, equipment, standards, inspection and testing technology, and effectively solve the work needs of "lack of standards, low quality, inadequate supervision, and difficulty in safeguarding rights" in the field of market supervision, providing strong support for the healthy development of China's tumor special medical food industry
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At present, Shi Hanping's team has summarized and put forward the theory of "tumor nutrition as a first-line treatment" in clinical terms has become a global consensus, "to make cancer patients more quality and dignity in treatment, this is my happiness and value, the future will also be the responsibility and significance of our key laboratory
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