<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To explore the distribution of Chinesemedicine (CM) syndrome types in primary liver cancer (PLC) and their differences of the survivaltime.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>From May 2007 to March 2009, recruited were 151 PLC inpatients at Department of Tumor, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Their survivaltime were statistically calculated. Patients' average survivaltime and median survivaltime were calculated using Kaplan-Meier method. The Log-rank test was used to analyze their differences of survivaltime among different CM syndrome types.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The proportion of CM syndrome types in PLC patients were ranked from high to low as follows mutual accumulation of dampness and blood stasis syndrome [MADBSS, 43.0% (65/151)], Gan-stagnation Pi-deficiencysyndrome [GSPDS, 34.4% (52/151)], qi stagnation blood stasis syndrome [QSBSS, 9.3% (14/151)], retention of damp-heatsyndrome [RDHS, 8.6%(13/151)], and Gan-Shen yin deficiencysyndrome [GSYDS, 4.6% (7/ 151)]. The median survivaltime of different CM syndrome types were ranked from longer to shorter as follows GSPDS (14.77 months), QSBSS (6.13 months), RDHS (5.27 months), MADBSS (4.78 months), and GSYDS (0.80 months). The mean survival times were ranked from longer to shorter as follows GSPDS (12.40 months), QSBSS (8.84 months), MADBSS (6.99 months), RDHS (7.08 months), and GSYDS (0.72 months). There was statistical difference in the difference of the survivaltime among different CM syndrome types (P < 0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>GSPDS and MADBSS were the most common CM syndrome types in PLC patients. There was difference in the survivaltime between GSPDS and MADBSS/between RDHS and GSYDS. There was difference in the survivaltime between MADBSS and GSYDS. Patients of GSPDS might get the best prognosis, while patients of GSYDS might get the poorest prognosis.</p>