What happens if you keep smoking with esophageal cancer?

Higher cancer risk: Mouth, tongue, throat, esophagus, lung, bladder and stomach cancers are all associated with use of tobacco. Smoking increases the risk of all these whether you have had one cancer or not. Stop smoking! go to the american cancer society for a stop smoking class- free usually. Talk to your doctor, use hypnosis, use patches, use gum, use anything that works. Use tootsie pops like telly savalas.

Same as without CA: It keeps causing more and more damage, and will impair healing from any surgery you may have to remove the cancer. Smoking may also impair the effectiveness of chemotherapy because it constricts the blood vessels which carry oxygen, nutrients and the drugs they are giving you. It increases the chance for new cancers, as well as emphysema and bronchitis. Please get help to stop smoking:it works!

Why?: Treatment for esophageal cancer is hard, survival difficult. The question is, "what do you want to achieve?". It makes little sense to undergo the difficult fight for survival while engaging in suicidal behavior. Please speak with your family, your family physician, your pastor/priest/rabbi, and figure out your goals. Fighting cancer is a yes or no proposition. There is no "little bit pregnant".

What do you want?: If you can stop, then stop. Smoking cessation may help some with making treatments easier, but will do little or nothing to affect the course of the disease. Some esophageal cancers do get cured, and stopping smoking reduces your risk for many other things, making the life that was saved more enjoyable. A dying person should be spared the unpleasantness of trying to quit.