Although the incidence rate of esophageal cancer is very high, there are still a lot of treatments for esophageal cancer more than one way, so esophageal cancer patients do not need to worry about it, and choose the appropriate treatment method to recover faster. So what are the common methods? Radiation therapy has been widely used in recent years as a treatment method for esophageal cancer, which can be categorized into external radiation and intraluminal radiation, preoperative radiation and postoperative radiation according to different conditions of patients. Surgery for cervical and upper thoracic esophageal tumors is traumatic and has a high complication rate, while radiation is less damaging and has a better efficacy than surgery, and radiotherapy should be the first choice for the treatment of this disease. Surgery has always been the traditional treatment method for esophageal cancer, especially for early stage, which can often achieve radical effect. However, due to the fact that late-stage patients often have tumor metastasis, immediate surgical treatment is not advocated. According to the above, patients with esophageal cancer need to combine each individual’s specific situation with the type of tumor as well as the clear staging to decide the suitable treatment method for themselves in order to make patients recover faster.