Usually, palliative treatment for advanced esophageal cancer refers to the measures to reduce patients’ pain and relieve psychological pressure when advanced esophageal cancer patients are too weak to continue surgical treatment or chemotherapy, mainly for advanced esophageal cancer with multiple metastases because the malignant tumors can no longer be cured. Generally speaking, palliative treatment for advanced esophageal cancer does not aim at curing the disease and cannot stop the continuous development of malignant tumors, but it can alleviate the pain of patients and improve their quality of life. There are many ways of palliative treatment for advanced esophageal cancer, such as giving oral nutritional liquid through nasogastric tube or nasojejunal tube, accompanying by family members, analgesia by anesthesiologists or counseling by psychologists.