In addition, compared to patients who had low peritumoral NTCP or ASGPR expression, significantly more patients with high peritumoral NTCP or ASGPR expression had tumor size ≥ 5 cm (NTCP: p = 0.007; ASGPR: p = 0.005) and microvascular invasion (NTCP: p < 0.001; ASGPR: p < 0.001) (Supplementary Table S2). Here, ASGR1 is linked to neoplasm.