Modern medicine has played an important role in the treatment of malignant tumors, and the role of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy has been continuously affirmed. In recent years, the development of Chinese medical oncology has also shown a good prospect. However, both of them have their own shortcomings and defects, such as narrow indications for surgery, easy to recur and metastasize after surgery; the toxic side effects of radiotherapy are large and difficult for patients to accept; the cytotoxic effect of Chinese medicine is weak and the effect on tumor shrinkage is poor, so only by insisting on the road of combining Chinese and Western medicine, taking each other’s strengths and complementing each other’s weaknesses and giving full play to their respective advantages, can we “help the righteous and dispel the evil” to the greatest extent. The only way to maximize the “help to eliminate evil” is to adhere to the path of combining Chinese and Western medicine, complementing each other’s strengths and weaknesses and giving full play to their respective advantages. If Chinese and Western medicine are properly combined, often get satisfactory results. At present, several clinical studies have confirmed that Chinese medicine can improve the quality of survival, increase weight, stabilize the tumor and improve immunity of tumor patients. In recent years, the basic research of TCM against tumor has been further developed from the original cellular level to the molecular and genetic level. The results of the current research are in general clinically effective through the following aspects: induction of cell differentiation, promotion of apoptosis, regulation of immune function, direct killing of tumor cells, inhibition of tumor neovascularization, reversal of multidrug resistance of tumor cells, antimutagenic effects, and resistance to metastasis of tumor cells, etc. Chinese medicine is multi-directional, multi-path and cross-acting, and should be combined with evidence-based treatment and disease-based treatment in clinical practice. We should correctly understand the shortage of Chinese medicine in treating tumors, and also give full play to the advantages and characteristics of Chinese medicine. Everything should be done in the interest of patients, and the treatment method that is valuable to patients is the best treatment method. Therefore, we insist on taking the road of combining Chinese and Western medicine, adopting integrated methods including Chinese medicine to treat various kinds of tumors, giving full play to the role Chinese medicine should play in the field of tumors, and making due contribution to the defeat of cancer and the health care of human beings.