Surgery is the preferred way to treat cancer today. Once diagnosed with cancer, patients or their families will naturally think of going to a surgeon for surgical removal. It is true that surgery can directly “remove” the cancerous mass, and the effect is precise, concise and easy to understand, which is generally acceptable to patients. This is the advantage of surgery. However, it is this advantage that has brought many patients and their families a serious misunderstanding: they think that after surgical resection, the cancer will be completely cured and they will be normal again and have a new life. Under the guidance of this kind of wrong thinking, it is easy for patients to relax their vigilance after surgery and fail to take follow-up anti-cancer measures in time, thus resulting in tragedy – recurrence or metastasis of cancer cells, and missing the good opportunity to cure cancer. The name of the surgery is also misleading to patients and their families, especially for early-stage cancers, and it is called “radical surgery”, which naturally makes people think that the cancer cells have been cured. In fact, this name is only an expectation – a hope for a cure – and does not represent the final outcome. There is another type of surgery called “palliative surgery”, which mainly refers to the metastasis of cancer, which is in advanced stage, such as vascular metastasis, bile duct metastasis, lymph node metastasis, spread of neighboring tissues, or distant metastasis, and it is basically incurable to operate at this time, and it is a matter of time before the cancer recurs. “Palliative surgery” is a kind of surgery with no hope of cure, and its purpose is to relieve some of the symptoms or reduce the tumor load. It is important to reiterate here: surgery for cancer ≠ cure. Sadly, there will always be cancer patients who think they are cured after surgery and do not continue to fight the cancer and “sit and wait for a recurrence”. I saw a middle-aged female patient in early 2015. The patient had undergone surgery to remove her liver cancer back in February 2012, but because the patient thought that after surgical resection, she was no longer sick, she was well, and she did not need to take medication, she merely underwent regular follow-ups after the surgery and missed the best opportunity to destroy the remaining cancer cells in her body. As a result, recurrence of the cancer mass in the liver was found 16 months after surgery. At this time, he was operated for the second time, and after the operation, he still did not take long-term measures such as taking traditional Chinese medicine to fight against the recurrence. As a result, 10 months after the operation, the cancer recurred again, and instead of one lump, many lumps appeared, and a third operation could not be performed. It was only at this time that I was approached, and even though the combination of vascular embolization intervention and TCM anti-cancer treatment was actively taken, it only maximized the life extension. Even with early stage cancer and radical resection, there is still a possibility of recurrence. The majority of mid-stage cancer patients will recur after surgery. Advanced cancer is almost destined to recur after surgery, and most of them recur within a short period of time. Perhaps some people may ask that so-and-so was cured after surgery for advanced cancer. Such cases do exist, but they are isolated cases, like winning a lottery ticket, and the percentage is extremely low. Postoperative recurrence of cancer is a critical issue that cannot be ignored and must be faced. For example, breast cancer patients with ≥4 axillary lymph node metastases are at high risk of recurrence, and even after adequate postoperative anti-recovery treatment with Western medicine, about 40% of patients still have recurrent metastases within 3 years. Chinese medicine has a unique advantage in postoperative anti-cancer recurrence – stopping or delaying the recurrence of cancer. Unfortunately, many patients do not use Chinese medicine compound to fight against cancer after cancer surgery. Only a few of the patients I saw were highly vigilant after cancer surgery, insisted on taking anti-cancer Chinese medicine for a long time, and came for regular follow-ups and prescription adjustments, and many of them had already passed the five-year tumor-free survival period and were clinically cured.