The natural plant yew as a natural resource for spectrum anti-cancer has brought good news to the treatment of more and more cancer patients. However, due to the lack of natural resources, the effective content of plants is extremely low, and there are still many problems in the existing extraction process and preparation process, which cannot be utilized efficiently. In recent years, the adsorption method has been gradually used. This material has the advantages of strong selectivity and adsorption capacity for the yew tumor components. The extraction of anti-tumor active ingredients of Taxus is more and more, showing a good development trend.