According to statistics, there are more than 10 million cancer survivors in the U.S. The 5-year survival rate of cancer patients announced by the U.S. is 70% to 80%, and the average life expectancy of cancer patients is more than 10 years; excluding some more dangerous cancers, the average life expectancy of most cancer patients will be much more than 10 years. What is the situation in China? There are no reliable statistics on this nationally, but we can compare China’s large, developed cities with the most high-end medical resources, such as Shanghai, to the United States. Shanghai has relatively reliable statistics: there are 134,000 cancer survivors, the 5-year survival rate for cancer patients in the Shanghai area is slightly over 30%, and the average life expectancy is just over 3 years! Compared to the United States, this is obviously a huge discrepancy. Some people would say that this is the level of economic development and scientific and technological level of the differences caused by this view is correct? The author thinks it is worth analyzing. Obviously, we can not just use the technology is not as good as others, equipment is not as good as others or backwardness of drugs and so on to make a reasonable explanation of this huge gap, the author believes that the following factors are more worthy of attention. First, the cultural background factors of high fear of death: China is a country without religion, and religion in general is to educate the faithful to face death calmly, the Chinese people compared to many other ethnic groups, often a high degree of fear of death, social education on death, the attitude of facing death is missing; Second, the backward social concepts of a high degree of fear of cancer factors: the extreme fear of cancer in China is spreading to an extreme extent, “Cancer is a terminal disease”. The viewpoint of “cancer is a terminal disease” is very popular, and the concept of “everything is finished” is deeply rooted in people’s mind, which has become a magic shadow that cannot be wiped away, so a considerable number of cancer patients are “scared to death”, which is a bad way of thinking. “Third, the old mode of cancer treatment is deeply rooted: the social concept of high fear of cancer makes the outdated old mode of cancer treatment, which is extremely dependent on radiotherapy, deeply rooted, and then mixed with all kinds of disputes of interests, which aggravates the excessiveness of chemoradiotherapy. In fact, the international tumor treatment community has begun to change the purely “antagonistic” treatment of tumors at the end of the 20th century, and no longer pursues the “war mode” and opposes endless high-dose chemoradiation therapy, but advocates moderate treatment, and advocates the moderate treatment of targeted drugs with more accurate aim. The country has not been able to keep up with this important shift in treatment thinking. Therefore, over-treatment and excessive radiotherapy have become one of the major reasons for the low survival rate of domestic cancer patients. Fourth, indifference to health and health care: they do not pay attention to routine medical checkups, the detection rate of early stage cancer is very low, and of course the cure rate will not be high. We know that before the 1980s, the cancer mortality rate in the United States was quite close to the current situation in Shanghai today, and it was also climbing higher and higher. But in the late 1990s, survival gradually began to lengthen. And this happened just after the international oncology treatment community emphasized on moderate treatment, on improving the quality of survival, and on targeted therapy. So much so that by 2005, for the first time, the number of cancer deaths in the United States began to decline, while the number of cancer deaths in China was still climbing. Therefore, it is time to accept advanced views and change the old way of thinking about treatment. Only in this way can we truly and effectively improve the effectiveness of cancer treatment, reduce mortality, minimize the physical and mental suffering of patients, and prolong quality survival. Strengthening national health-care awareness and reinforcing cancer-prevention medical check-ups is also an arduous and important task.