The invention belongs to the field of medicines, and relates to an application of a method for degrading all carbohydrate chains in the blood to be monosaccharide and detecting the monosaccharide in cancer detection. A sample in the method for degrading the blood to obtain the monosaccharide and detecting the monosaccharide is the blood, and the cancer includes lung cancer, gastric cancer, ovarian cancer, penis cancer, esophagus cancer, oral cancer, biliary duct cancer, breast cancer, adenocarcinoma perampullaire, rectal cancer and bladder cancer. The method has the characteristics of simplicity and easiness in operation steps, easiness in popularization, short detection time, low requirement on the instrument, low detection cost, less consumption of blood and the like. The result displays that based on the content of eight monosaccharides in the blood, not only can a normal person and a cancer patient be distinguished, but also different cancers can be distinguished. The method for simplifying glycomics knowledge and applying in the detection of the biomarker of blood is first created in the world.