I. Information on previous treatment 1. Before treatment When did the disease develop? What symptoms in what part of the body? How long did it last? What are the characteristics of the attack? If the mass is palpable on the body surface, how large is it? How hard is the mass? What color is the surface of the mass? What tests such as ultrasound, CT or MRI were done at what hospital and when, and what were the results? If a tumor is found, where is it located? How big is the tumor? Are there any metastases? Where are the metastases, how many are there, and what is their size? What were the results of the blood tests? What are the tumor markers? If the patient’s condition is serious, has the liver and kidney function been checked? Besides the tumor, what other diseases has he/she suffered from and has he/she been cured yet? etc. Xiong Shaoquan, Department of Oncology, Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2. Post-treatment situation What time, which hospital, what department, what kind of treatment has been done? If it is chemotherapy, what is the chemotherapy program? How many times have you had chemotherapy in a long time? What is the effect of chemotherapy? Did the symptoms improve? When did you check how much the tumor has shrunk? What are the side effects of chemotherapy and can they be tolerated? If you have had radiotherapy, which part of the tumor was treated? How many treatments were given? Did you complete the entire radiation therapy program? How effective was the radiation therapy? If surgery was done, was it radical or palliative? What was found during surgery? What were the results of the tumor pathology after surgery (especially important)? Including whether the tumor is clean, the number of lymph nodes cleared, the number of positive lymph nodes, whether there is tumor thrombus in the vasculature, the size of the tumor, the nuclear division, differentiation, necrosis, what are the molecular indexes of immunohistochemistry, and the expression of the genes such as Her-2, ER, PR, ki-67, CD117, EGFR, k-RAS, ALK, etc.? etc. Second, the current situation of the lesion If the tumor has recurred or metastasized, when was the recurrence found? Where is the tumor metastasis? What is the size of the tumor? How long has it been since the last chemotherapy or surgery? What treatment has been done since the recurrence and what is the effect of the treatment? What are the blood test results of the patient? Are the liver and kidney function, blood routine and tumor indexes normal? What are the results of the most recent ultrasound, CT or MRI? If the tumor is on the body surface, what is the size, hardness and surface color? III. Information needed by TCM practitioners What are the most predominant symptoms and locations at present? Are there any aggravating or alleviating factors? What are the accompanying symptoms? Is there any pain and where is it located? What are the characteristics of the attack? What is the mental and physical state? What is the color of the face? Any back pain or limb weakness? Dizziness and tinnitus? Are there any chills, fever or sweating? If coughing, is there any sputum and its color? If coughing up blood or blood in stool, color and amount? If there is abdominal pain, where is it located and what is the pattern of abdominal pain? Is the mouth dry and bitter? What is your diet? Is there any acidity or retching? Any chest or abdominal discomfort? Urine volume and color? Stool condition? Menstruation and leucorrhea? What kind of herbal medicine have you taken and how effective is it? What is the color of the tongue, e.g. greasy, yellow, white, or yellowish? What is the color of the tongue, e.g. reddish tongue, dark tongue, blue tongue, thin tongue, fat tongue (a photo is acceptable)? And so on. In short, only to provide the best possible information about the condition, it is conducive to the correct analysis of the doctor, conducive to the comprehensive treatment of the condition.