1.The elderly are poorly tolerated, poorly responsive, not easily detected at an early stage, mostly mixed with other diseases, and some special examinations are limited. 2.Weakness of organs, low immune function, easy to combine multiple infections. 3, late stage of disease, more people lose the opportunity of surgery, even if it can be surgically removed, poor tolerance to surgery. Guo Jun, Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Xingtai People’s Hospital 4. The choice of drugs and the dosage of drugs should be carefully. 5, poor tolerance to radiotherapy reaction and big side effects. It is necessary to insist on the combination of Chinese and Western medicine, so as to support the righteousness without converging the evil and drive away the evil without hurting the righteousness, effectively prolong the survival period with tumor, reduce the patient’s pain and improve the quality of survival. In view of the above problems, a prudent attitude and program must be adopted in the diagnosis and treatment of tumors in the elderly.