The European Organization for the Research and Treatment of Cancer reported that vinorelbine, a semisynthetic analogue of vinblastine and vincristine, was active in this difficult disease. There was fairly low toxicity. Clinical trials are being done at many hospitals today, testing new drugs that offer either a significantly better result, or drugs that offer the same results as to what you might get from regular treatment, but with fewer side effects. It's important to know how much experience they've had with it. If this is something they've not dealt with too much, or something that they haven't been very successful treating, then maybe you should consider another doctor.
Dilatation sounds good, and Stents are a possibility.
I'm not sure about them, but they seem to widen the esophagus to help with eating food. I think Stents may cause severe hiccups, though - at least in one person they did. They are almost constant. I think it's the removal of the cancerous part of the esophagus, where they move the stomach up or transplant a piece of the small intestine to make up for the difference in length. One person who had it done had to have surgery because as a result of it, her stomach was digesting extremely slow, and she's had to have multiple procedures done to help that.