Esophageal cancer is a common malignant tumor of the digestive system, and its incidence and death rate are getting higher and higher with the influence of environment, bad dietary habits, heredity and other factors. Typical symptoms of esophageal cancer are progressive dysphagia, retrosternal pain and reflux caused by eating. At present, the treatments for esophageal cancer mainly include surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and comprehensive treatment, and effective dietary regimen in the treatment stage is greatly beneficial to the recovery of esophageal cancer patients. Post-operative diet of esophageal cancer patients About one week after surgery for esophageal cancer is the trauma recovery period of surgery. At this stage, the digestive function is poor, so nasal diet is usually prescribed, and non-stimulating fluid food such as water, milk, soy milk, rice soup, vegetable juice and fruit juice is given to ensure the energy needs of the body, and attention should be paid to the semi-recumbent position, appropriate temperature of diet, slow and even speed. About 10 days after operation, patients can eat through mouth, and the diet should be mainly non-dregs semi-fluid diet, such as fish soup, chicken soup, diluted rice and nutritional liquid, etc. During this period, small amount of food should be eaten in multiple meals, and large-mouth diet should be avoided to avoid complications such as anastomotic fistula. About 2 weeks after esophageal cancer surgery, the diet can be adjusted to ordinary diet. At this stage, patients should drink a small amount of water after eating, rinse the esophagus, remove the food residues in the esophagus, and still eat small meals for a period of time, and carry out appropriate activities after eating, not lying down right away, which is conducive to the digestion and absorption of food, and prevention of acid reflux and vomiting. Doctor’s tip: Dietary management of esophageal cancer is a very important thing for patients with esophageal cancer, which requires doctor’s guidance to achieve reasonable diet and scientific nutritional matching, in order to improve patients’ quality of life, enhance patients’ immunity, strengthen patients’ physique, and prevent recurrence of tumor.