In order to summarize and analyze the intal relations of tumor formation and metastasis to blood-stasis syndrome and the influential factors of blood-activating and stasis-resolving drugs (BASRD) on tumor inhibition and metastasis, and to grasp the opportunity of selecting and using BASRD, the authors have retrieved by the computer the relative literature published from 1985 to 2006 in Full-text Database of Chinese Periodicals with BASRD and cancer as retrieval words.