The prominent symptom of esophageal cancer patients is difficulty in swallowing, which is also a serious problem for esophageal cancer patients in terms of diet. Difficulty in ingestion is a very serious problem for esophageal cancer patients. For early and middle stage esophageal cancer patients who have been diagnosed, they should seize the opportunity to increase nutrition comprehensively, give them soft food or semi-liquid food with high protein and high vitamin, and make use of the absorption function of their gastrointestinal tract to supplement nutrition as much as possible so that they can have a better physical condition. The main points to avoid in the diet of esophageal cancer patients are: 1. not to eat smelly, fishy and spicy stimulating foods, because these foods can also cause esophageal spasm and make the patient uncomfortable. For esophageal cancer patients who cannot eat at all, they should adopt intravenous high nutrition method to input nutrients to maintain the needs of the patient’s organism. 2.When choking occurs, do not swallow forcibly, otherwise it will stimulate local cancer tissue bleeding, spreading, metastasis and pain. When choking is serious, the patient should have liquid food or semi-liquid food. 3.Avoid eating cold liquid food and cold noodles, egg soup and milk which are placed for a longer period of time. Because the narrow part of the esophagus to cold food stimulation is very obvious, easy to cause esophageal spasm, nausea and vomiting, pain and swelling and numbness and other feelings. Therefore, it is better to eat warm food.