Case: In September 2014, the author saw a middle-aged male patient who was found to have end-stage liver cancer on liver-enhanced MRI and 97 mm ascites in the lower abdomen on ultrasound, which was a large amount of ascites, and the patient’s abdomen was distended like a drum. In order to reduce the patient’s abdominal distension, reduce the patient’s pain and prevent the ascites from continuing to increase, the author formulated a combined Chinese and Western medicine program: 1. The herbal medicine was prescribed according to the information collected from the patient’s observation and examination, and the Chinese medicine was selected from Jinlong capsule to activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis. After the treatment, the patient’s abdominal distension was relieved and ascites subsided rapidly and did not arise again. the ascites almost disappeared on re-examination in January 2015, indicating that the treatment was effective. Unfortunately, the cancer mass was too large and widespread in the abdominal cavity when the patient was found, but the active and reasonable combined Chinese and Western medicine treatment relieved the patient’s symptoms, reduced the patient’s pain and prolonged the patient’s life to a limited extent. Analysis: Some patients are at the end stage when liver cancer is first detected, and the cancer masses are large and spread everywhere. However, people are often prone to make a mistake: they are not willing to face the reality, always hope that there is a treatment method can be cured, so terminal patients are also sent to chemotherapy, radiotherapy or gamma knife treatment, but the results shorten the life of the patient. A real typical example, an acquaintance came to the author with a patient’s data, and after reading it, the author judged it to be liver cancer with massive ascites and poor liver function, which is end-stage, and asked the acquaintance to inform the patient’s family that the best treatment is internal medicine to effectively reduce pain, and the expected survival period is about 3 months. The family previously consulted a well-known specialist in surgery at a hospital in Shanghai, also informed that drug therapy is most appropriate, and the author’s opinion, but the family is not willing to ah, can not let go of the pain of the loss of loved ones, always hope for a miracle, so sent the patient to do gamma knife treatment, hoping to destroy the tumor, but it is not what you want, half a month after the patient’s liver function rapidly failing, about a month passed away. If the drug treatment alone survived about three months, but the family blindly went to the gamma knife treatment, but shortened the patient’s life for two months. Medicine is a science, the development of the disease has its objective laws, what stage of the patient is suitable for what treatment are the instructions, the end-stage patient gamma knife treatment does more harm than good, the patient’s body can not stand, but shorten the life, so emotions can not prevail over science. Family mood can be understood, but to choose the appropriate and reasonable treatment.