What is the average survival period for mid-stage esophageal cancer without metastasis to other tissues? How should I take care of myself after surgery? How to detect recurrence early and what is the impact on survival after recurrence? The formation of esophageal cancer is related to the spirit. According to the data, if patients have doubts about the treatment, lose confidence and are pessimistic and depressed, the curative effect is poor and easy to recur, and the survival time is short. According to some scholars, people who have confidence to overcome cancer and live tenaciously will have good foci of hope and expectation in the brain. This good excitement foci are transmitted to the hormone-related pituitary gland in the lower part of the autonomic nerve center —- through the brain’s limbic system, which is a functional center, so that the immune activity is enhanced and the abnormal cell function is depressed, which promotes the degeneration of cancer cells. On the contrary, the lack of expectation and belief makes it difficult to stimulate a series of endocrine reactions that inhibit the growth of cancer cells, which makes cancer cells dysregulate and deteriorate the disease. Therefore, patients should establish a correct outlook on life and treat the disease correctly so that Yin and Yang can be balanced, which is beneficial to health and recovery. After diagnosed, esophageal cancer patients need to undergo surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, which will bring different degrees of pain and troubles to patients during the treatment process. 1.Spiritual consolation: To overcome the disease and eliminate the worries and actively cooperate with the treatment. After the patient learns that he is suffering from tumor, he will be under great mental pressure and lose confidence in his future life. Patients should be relaxed and should not be anxious and angry because of the difficulty in eating. Family members should give spiritual support and take care of life, and take measures to actively treat. 2.Strengthen nutrition and exercise Provide high-calorie, high-protein, vitamin and inorganic salt diet in life before treatment. Help the patient to exercise. 3.Care patience Cooperate with medical treatment Because of the side effects of chemotherapy and the patient’s own immune system is extremely low, it is very necessary to take drugs that quickly improve immunity, such as gold flower joint detailed, etc. 4, improve the patient’s cleanliness and hygiene, to prevent postoperative infection. Third, dietary conditioning 1, early should strengthen nutrition, pay attention to eat fresh food, supplement protein, vitamins, sugar, fat, etc., so that patients maintain and enhance the resistance to disease, to create conditions for treatment, and reserve a certain amount of nutrients. 2.After surgery, dietary regimen should be mainly liquid and semi-liquid. Avoid any irritating food to prevent anastomotic infection and injury. Allowed by the doctor before entering ordinary food. 3.When radiotherapy, it is easy to cause dryness of the oropharynx and burning pain behind the sternum, etc. It is advisable to use nutritious, clear, soft and moist food that can be easily swallowed, such as sugar cane juice, milk, egg custard, lotus root powder, watermelon, etc. 4.When chemotherapy is given, it is mainly for the damage of bone marrow hematopoiesis and digestive system. It is advisable to eat foods that strengthen spleen and stomach, and cloth bone and marrow, such as yam, hawthorn, citrus, tomato, beef, etc., plus apple, red date, turtle, walnut, etc. The natural course of esophageal cancer is divided into initiation stage, development stage, epizootic stage and terminal stage. The average survival period from the beginning of symptoms to death of untreated cases in epizootic stage is reported to be 9,4-9,7 months, while patients in terminal stage die quickly without treatment, with an average survival period of about 3 months. The 5-year survival rates of esophageal cancer stages I, II, III and IV are 90%, 50%, 35, 8%, 16 and 9%, respectively. The 5-year survival rate for those with negative local lymph node metastasis is 33, 7%, and 10% for those with positive. Radical or palliative resection: the 5-year survival rate was 33,7% for the former and 18,7% for the latter. Early invasive carcinoma can also develop metastasis, so early stage carcinoma should also be thoroughly and extensively resected according to the principles of surgical oncology. The main cause of distant death in middle and late stage cancer is cancer metastasis (60,3%), followed by recurrence (29,1%), and 84,1% of patients die within the first 3 years after surgery.