The incidence of malignant tumor is increasing year by year

and most of the tumor diagnoses are made in late stages. Therefore

the importance of palliative treatment is becoming more and more significant. It has become the treatment trend in advanced cancer that palliative medicine involves in early and throughout the entire therapeutic process. " Survival with tumor" is the characteristic of the traditional Chinese medicine（ TCM） therapy for cancer

as well as the theory core of TCM tumor palliative treatment. The early intervention and the entire therapy of Chinese medicine is a form of palliative treatment

which can control symptoms

improve quality of life

and prolong survival. Based on the clinical practice in the cancer center of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine

this article summarizes and analyzes the advantage of TCM treatment of late lung cancer

liver cancer

and cancer pain

and in dealing with adverse drug reaction. This article also puts forward an efficacy evaluation system for TCM oncology or integrative TCM and western medicine oncology

and proposes that TCM should intervene early and throughout the entire treatment in advanced cancer management.