Professor Ma was sent by the state to train at the Montpellier National Cancer Centre in France in 2001-2002. With over thirty years in oncology, he has broad clinical experience across solid tumours, and a particular focus on multidisciplinary treatment of digestive-system cancer and of the malignancies most often seen in elderly patients.
He has led and taken part in multiple national and international multicentre clinical trials and provincial research programmes, and is chief editor or contributing author of “Pancreatic Cancer: Controversies and Consensus in Clinical Practice”, “Evidence-Based Chemotherapy of Digestive System Tumours”, “Integrative Chinese and Western Oncology” and “Practical Digestive System Oncology”.