Currently, the incidence of cancer is increasing and it has become a major disease threatening human health. Overcoming the disease and prolonging life is a difficult process that every oncologist must think deeply about and keep exploring with his or her life’s energy. Through years of exploration, we have summed up a set of ideas and methods combining Chinese and Western medicine for the treatment of middle and late stage cancer, and the results are very good: in outpatient clinics, we often see not only breast cancer and colorectal cancer patients who have survived for more than 10 years, but also liver cancer and lung cancer patients who have survived for more than 3 or 5 years. We also see patients with advanced bone metastases whose pain is relieved quickly after treatment, and breast cancer patients whose tumors shrink within a few days after initial treatment with traditional Chinese medicine, and so on. In the ward, many patients with advanced cancer who were dying after Western medical treatment and declared death penalty within 3 months or 6 months came back to life after combined Chinese and Western medical treatment in our department, and even resumed normal life. Cancer patients with large amount of pleural fluid and ascites can even achieve better control of their disease and prolong their lives without daily pumping and fluid release in our department! Yes, we see that too many lives are always prolonged here! Seeing the patients and their families smile, we feel infinitely gratified, and this is the satisfactory result of our long and diligent search for cancer treatment! Combination of Chinese and Western medicine for cancer treatment is really effective! The preliminary estimate of our treatment efficiency should be above 80% (including symptom remission, tumor shrinkage, and decrease of swelling mark). Here, we would like to share our long-term treatment experience with you, in order to convey confidence to the majority of cancer patients and provide thoughts for our medical colleagues. The benefits of combined Chinese and Western medicine treatment for cancer naturally need not be mentioned. The most important thing is, how to combine Chinese medicine and Western medicine? How to combine to better control cancer and extend life? 1. As an oncologist, it is best to learn both Chinese and Western medicine, to fully understand the advantages and disadvantages of Western medicine treatment, and to be familiar with the characteristics of Chinese medicine treatment. This is very important, and there is not much reason to talk about it. Otherwise, the treatment may go to extremes, delaying or even worsening the patient’s condition and causing premature end of the patient’s life. We see this situation too often in clinical practice! The patient’s family members are also, in a hurry, overly identified with Western or Chinese medicine. Many patients who come to our hospital for treatment, most of them are desperate to be treated by Western medicine, we really regret this, if the combination of Chinese and Western medicine is taken early, the effect will be more ideal. 2, the combination of Chinese and Western medicine, not simply Chinese medicine + Western medicine, but in a full understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of Chinese and Western medicine based on the collaboration of thinking, in order to strive to obtain the maximum therapeutic effect. Some patients, while in the Western hospital surgery or chemotherapy, while a random Chinese medicine teacher to prescribe some Chinese medicine, this is called Chinese and Western medicine together, not combined! The real combination of Chinese and Western medicine. For example, during chemotherapy, as a teacher of Chinese medicine, you should understand in detail the specific drugs and the way to use chemotherapy, be very clear about the benefits of chemotherapy to the patient, understand what the toxic side effects of chemotherapy are, when they usually appear and how long they last, what are the characteristics of the patient’s symptoms in Chinese medicine during chemotherapy, and so on. Only when we understand these conditions and use the drugs in a targeted manner can we achieve the goal of increasing the effectiveness and reducing the toxicity of chemotherapy. Sometimes, we hope that the Western medicine side can also cooperate with Chinese medicine, but often it is not the case, and patients are often treated in different hospitals at the same time. We are familiar with Western medicine, but Western medicine does not know Chinese medicine, the combination of Chinese and Western medicine is not doing well. 3, the combination of Chinese and Western medicine, to continue to explore and innovate its ways and means, can not follow the old ways, not only to strive for safety and soundness, but also as far as possible efficacy first. Most of the tumors, after early radical resection, can indeed delay the life of the patient, which suggests to us that direct combat tumor will bring benefits to the patient. Even if the tumor shrinks, the patient’s life may not be prolonged. This reminds us that we must take care of the patient’s physical condition to combat the tumor. In clinical practice, I always tell patients, “We can’t keep our eyes on the size of tumor, we are more concerned about whether you can eat or not, as long as you can eat, you can continue to live, living is the purpose, living is the opportunity to receive various treatments”! Yes, when it comes to treatment, Chinese medicine pays more attention to the regulation. But what about the patient’s heart that is attached to the size of the tumor and the height of the tumor? This problem cannot be ignored. In clinical practice, we solve this problem in this way: through the basis of TCM conditioning, we try to create conditions for chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery to shrink the tumor and lower the tumor standard. Therefore, our TCM treatment actually does not delay the disease, and the worry of some patients is totally unnecessary. Besides choosing radiotherapy to kill tumors, many anti-cancer herbal infusions also kill tumors, and some toxic herbal medicines such as light powder, arsenic, gansui, dahurian, zebra, centipede, scorpion, etc. are also tumor-killing and can be flexibly chosen for use. Many TCM teachers are afraid of using these toxic medicines, and patients are also nervous when they see these medicines, but what are they afraid of? These Chinese medicines are no more poisonous than chemotherapy drugs! When it comes to chemotherapy, in fact, this treatment is not very promising in general, the efficacy is not high, and the side effects are also large. In the last 10 years, there are very few new chemotherapy drugs internationally. Why? Poor efficacy, large investment, long research and development cycle, no large companies are willing to develop new drugs. Then why are so many hospitals still enthusiastic about cancer chemotherapy? Because the reality is popular! Because there is no better alternative! And because many hospitals do not know how to combine Chinese and Western medicine! We have another experience in the combination of Chinese and Western medicine related to chemotherapy. Aren’t chemotherapeutic drugs highly toxic and seek short-term effects? Isn’t Chinese medicine against cancer less powerful and more stable in the long term? Well, we do not necessarily follow the standard chemotherapy protocol of high dose and short duration. Instead, we can flexibly improve the use of chemotherapy drugs according to the actual situation by lowering the dose of chemotherapy (even down to 10% of the dose) but prolonging the use time, and using chemotherapy drugs as toxic Chinese medicine synergistically! This combination of Chinese and Western medicine really works! All patients on the drug hardly experienced any chemotherapy-related side effects, and the efficacy was even visible in a short period of time (within 1 to 4 weeks). It is difficult to develop a new drug, and even if there is a drug, the tumor will be resistant to it very quickly. However, the improved combination of Chinese and Western medicine is relatively much easier to administer, and the tumor is less likely to be drug resistant and less likely to recur. The combination of Chinese and Western medicine has many contents, unlike Western medicine which is surgery and radiotherapy. Of course, the road of combining Chinese and Western medicine to fight against cancer is long and requires the joint efforts of both doctors and patients, especially as a dedicated oncologist, who should have the struggle and sacrifice spirit to continuously explore and tackle difficult problems.