The cancer immunoediting hypothesis describes the dual role played by the immune system in tumor development and is divided into 3 sequential stages

i.e.immune clearance

immune balance

and immune escape.Traditional Chinese medicine believes that deficient vital qi and excess pathogenic qi is the most important basic pathogenesis of cancer

and it is used to guide the clinical application of supporting the healthy energy and combating poison with poison.Applying the cancer immunoediting hypothesis

the vital qi is linked with the immune function

the disease evil as well as cancer toxin with the tumor cells

and the pathogenesis deficient vital qi and excess pathogenic qi of the tumor is extended to"the whole body is not necessarily deficiency

but the local with intermingled deficiency and excess".The treatment method guided by this pathogenesis is expanded from "supporting the healthy energy and combating poison with poison"to"supporting the vital qi in the disease area

and targeted combating poison with poison".It is tried to expand the "deficient vital qi and excess pathogenic qi"and its treatment method

which can provide a reference for the multi-target

multi-level and multi-factor network regulation of Chinese medicine in the field of tumor immunotherapy.