With the pollution of the environment, the increase of work pressure and the change of life pattern, the incidence of tumor is increasing year by year, especially lung cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, breast cancer and other malignant tumors, which cause huge medical payment to the society, unbearable psychological pressure and economic burden to the family, and severe physical and mental blow to the patients. In the midst of hope and despair, how to choose between Western medicine and Chinese medicine? First of all, TCM and Western medicine do not contradict each other, but only look at the curative effect. Western medicine mainly adopts surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and recently emerging immunotherapy and molecular targeted therapy to treat tumors, and some patients have achieved positive results. However, there are also a good part of patients who are found late and have poor health, no chance of surgery, poor tolerance of radiotherapy, or radiotherapy is not effective (chemotherapy efficiency 30%-70%), what should be done? TCM treatment of tumor is based on holistic concept and evidence-based treatment, combining disease identification and evidence-based treatment, considering that tumor is an overall deficiency lesion and local reality lesion, early stage is reality, middle and late stage is mixed with deficiency and reality, using the four qi and five flavors, elevation and sinking of Chinese medicine, adopting the method of supporting and cultivating the root, activating blood circulation and resolving blood stasis, clearing heat and detoxifying, softening and dispersing knots, etc., treating the whole and local together, so that patients can survive with tumor for a long time and achieve satisfactory results. The combination of the two is the best way to bring hope for life and provide patients with better curative effect. Secondly, Western and Chinese medicine, complementing each other, have excellent curative effects. This is reflected in the following points: 1. Highlighting the concept of people-oriented and survival with tumor Today, the concept of cancer treatment has undergone fundamental changes, and the treatment mode of taking disease as the core and maximizing tumor killing has been changing to the humanized treatment direction of taking patients as the core and seeking the best quality of life. In modern medicine, the evaluation of the efficacy of treating malignant tumors is mostly focused on the reduction of tumor and the prolongation of survival time, especially the reduction of tumor, but little regard to the patient’s survival quality. However, the efficacy of TCM in treating malignant tumors is more reflected in the improvement of clinical symptoms and quality of life, and many patients can achieve “survival with tumor” after treatment. This is undoubtedly a blessing for tumor patients. This reflects the “people-oriented” concept of Chinese medicine in treating tumors. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy are important methods of treating malignant tumors in modern medicine, but although radiotherapy can directly kill tumor cells, it can also damage normal tissue cells; the side effects of chemotherapy drugs are mainly bone marrow suppression, gastrointestinal adverse reactions, as well as affecting heart, liver and kidney functions. Due to these side effects, they bring great pain to patients and severely limit their clinical use. In contrast, Chinese medicine, on the basis of evidence-based treatment, can not only improve the efficacy of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, but also reduce various toxic side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy to varying degrees and increase the sensitivity of radiotherapy and chemotherapy by formulating corresponding treatment rules according to the patient’s deficiency of positive qi (qi, blood, yin and yang) and the prevalence and decline of evil qi (phlegm, stasis and toxicity). For example, our department’s in-hospital preparation Jinhuang Paste prevents chemotherapy phlebitis and radioactive pulmonary fibrosis, and homemade soup prevents radiotherapy-induced bone marrow suppression and radioactive pulmonary fibrosis. After surgery, in order to consolidate the effect of surgery and prevent metastasis and recurrence, it is often necessary to carry out radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other treatments. However, these methods inevitably produce therapeutic reactions, such as nausea and vomiting, inability to eat well and other gastrointestinal symptoms, as well as the decrease of white blood cells, which lead to the decrease of patients’ physical strength. Chinese medicine treatment can effectively reduce the gastrointestinal reactions caused by the above treatments, maintain a normal diet, and facilitate nutrient absorption, so that patients can gradually recover their strength and ensure the successful completion of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. 4.Preventing metastasis and recurrence During the consolidation and recovery period, the patient has already passed the clinical treatment period, and the western medical treatments such as surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are no longer applicable, while the Chinese medicine method can further improve the immune function of the body, eliminate the abnormalities of the cancer-causing internal environment in the body, induce the differentiation and apoptosis of the residual cancer cells, improve the functions of all organs of the body, effectively prevent recurrence and metastasis, consolidate the treatment period The treatment effect can be consolidated to achieve complete recovery. This fully reflects the concept of “treating the disease before it happens” in TCM. Finally, the combination of Chinese and Western medicine is the best way, which can produce a miracle combination. It is the best way to extend the survival period and improve the quality of life of patients. Tumor patients, especially in the middle and late stages, have many complications, such as weakness, nausea, vomiting, loneliness, fear, intestinal obstruction, cancer fever, cancer pain, cancer ulcers, etc. Some of them are considered by Western medicine as functional lesions and do not need to be treated, while others are intractable problems and have poor treatment effect, but the patients are suffering and in pain. The combination of TCM, Chinese and Western medicine may create miracles. For example, our department has created the external application of Decongestant No. 1 to treat cancer pain with remarkable efficacy, and successfully declared the subject of Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation; the external application of Decongestant No. 2 to treat edematous diseases, such as pleural fluid, ascites and swelling with obvious effect, which is well received by patients. We have also developed the anti-distension powder, clove bag and intestinal tonics, which are effective in treating abdominal distension and intestinal obstruction both internally and externally. For cancerous ulcers that have not been cured by Western medicine for a long time, the addition of a few Chinese herbs can promote healing by dissolving decay and creating muscle. The combination of Chinese and Western medicine has created many miracles, prolonging patients’ survival and improving their quality of life as much as possible. Malignant tumor is one of the major diseases that endanger human health. The prevention and treatment of malignant tumors has become an important issue of concern to the medical profession. Chinese medicine, Western medicine, or the combination of Chinese and Western medicine, which one do you choose?