Objective To investigate the TCM syndromes of depression and anxiety in the breast cancer patients.Methods The 248 breast cancer patients were evaluated with Self-rating Depression Scale （SDS） and Self-Rating Anxiety Scale （SAS）.Those 157 who were diagnosed depression and anxiety were differentiated with TCM diagnostics according to their different ages

different courses and stages of disease in order to find out their TCM syndromes’ characteristics.Results There were 63.31% breast cancer patients accompanied with depression and anxiety

of which

the depression cases had liver stagnation with phlegm retention

occupying 46.94%

and the anxiety cases had antipathogenic qi deficiency with heat-toxin stasis

occupying 42.86%;there was a significant difference in syndrome structure in different ages

different courses and stages of disease of patients （P<0.01）.Conclusion Breast cancer patients have depression and anxiety emotions

the syndromes of liver stagnation with phlegm retention and antipathogenic qi deficiency with heat-toxin stasis are closely related with the occurrence of depression and anxiety.