It has a long history for traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of tumors. Integrated therapy has some characters: a more unique point of view, overall treatment plan, rational evaluated system and individualized therapy. Department of Traditional Chinese Medical (DTCM) in Tianjin Cancer Hospital possesses 6 professional which comprise 1 chief physician, 3 associate chief physicians and 3 master degree candidates.

There are 40 beds in the department. out-patient service reaches 4000 people, and hospitalization is more than 600 people per year.

DTCM has developed various pure Chinese herbal medicine products, such as disinfecting pill, Jiangdan series, powder for dissipating stomachache, the thyroid gland series washes, the mammary glands ache pill. The clinical and social effects are accepted.

The main research topics in the department include the terminal care, pain management of the cancer ( involved in the treatment with Chinese herbal medicine and the method of three-ladder pain relief ), and the studies on treatment of the side-effect caused by cancer chemotherapy and radiotherapy with the Chinese herbal medicine. After some years' efforts, the related strategy of treatment for the side effect of chemotherapy on tumor has been concluded systematically.

The department highlights the research on normalized therapy and management of cancer pain, and has been nominated as one of the bases for trial of anti-tumor drugs and clinical trial of drug dependence.