What to do if you can’t eat with esophageal cancer

Esophageal cancer is a malignant tumor of the digestive tract, if the disease gradually progresses and the lesion area expands and obstructs the esophagus, it will make it difficult to swallow food, the solutions are as follows: 1. change to a liquid diet, such as milk, nutritional powder, enteral nutrition solution, etc., which can ensure the patient’s nutrition; 2. surgically remove the cancer lesion; 3. local palliative treatment, placing a stent under the gastroscope to expand the esophagus; 4. radiotherapy, by shrinking the cancer allowing patients to eat in the short term; 5. placing gastrointestinal tubes, performing gastrostomy and jejunostomy, etc., which can improve patients’ physical condition and give them health support to prolong their survival time by playing nutritional fluids from the fistula or nutrition tube.