Most studies show that the blood transfusion can promote patients tumor recurrence, and lower their 5-year survival rate. Even patients in the early phase, a small amount of blood transfusion has significant effect. Blood transfusion causing tumor recurrence may be due to that blood transfusion recipients suppressed immune function, resulting in rapid growth of residual tumor cells. In this paper, blood transfusion for patients with tumors will be discassed. induding the benefit and danger of blood transfusion autotransfusion and blood substitutes for patients with tumors ,and development of transfusion medicine in our country.