Abstract: Common symptoms of tumor were analyzed through syndrome differentiation in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and some of them were given to illustrate， including cancer pain， fever， bleeding， anemia， vomiting， diarrhea， constipation and swelling. It is believed that cancer patients are deficient as a whole while excess at the cancerous local site. For such deficiency-excess complicated syndrome， it is doomed to be incurable once delayed to terminal stage. By then， the patient can neither be treated with reducing nor reinforcing method， but only with palliative care assisted by strengthening stomach to help govern intake.