ALB and hepatocellular carcinoma: As shown in Table 1, when the two groups and the non-HCC subjects were compared, significant differences were observed in the levels of albumin (p = 0.0062) and lymph vascular invasion (p = 0.0163) as well as in tumor size (p = 0.002), tumor number (p = 0.0429), and tumor grade (p = 0.001), but not in age, sex, or the levels of GOT, alkaline phosphatase, triglyceride, g-GT, AC sugar, bilirubin, and cholesterol (Table 1).