Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is used to treat malignant tumors, mainly including internal treatment and external treatment. Internal treatment of TCM is mainly based on the specific condition and related symptoms and signs of patients. Some traditional Chinese medicine decoction or Chinese patent medicine are dialectically applied to patients, so as to achieve some purposes of improving patients' symptoms and improving patients' life treatment.

Similarly, the external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine also needs to apply some common treatments such as acupuncture, fire needle and moxibustion according to the patient's related illness, including acupoint application or enema with traditional Chinese medicine, so as to improve some related symptoms of patients. Therefore, it is suggested that patients should undergo routine treatment after being diagnosed as a malignant tumor, such as surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. On the other hand, patients are also advised to use some Chinese medicines at the same time to achieve better therapeutic effects.