Abstract:Breast cancer, as a malignant tumor threatening the survival of women in China, its incidence rate is increasing year by year and showing a younger trend, control of cancer cell proliferation, invasion, metastasis is the focus and difficulty of treatment. DEAD-box polypeptide 5 (DDX5), a processing factor regulating RNA biological function, is a multi-dimensional functional protein involved in regulating RNA splicing, ribosome biological function, transcription and translation. It can promote the proliferation, invasion and metastasis of breast cancer through gene amplification, activation of carcinogens, enhancement of epithelial mesenchymal transformation, and reorganization of cytoskeleton. It can also be used as a marker of prognosis and recurrence of breast cancer. This article reviews the role of DDX5 in promoting the proliferation, invasion and metastasis of breast cancer, its significance in the classification, prognosis and recurrence of breast cancer, and the clinical reports of existing Chinese medicine intervention DDX5 on breast cancer, which can provide a new perspective for the exploration of the etiology of breast cancer and new targeted therapy ideas.