However, we didn’t observe a significant association when we used the negative tumor LDH-A expression combined with the two groups of Method B. There was only two individuals in the subgroup of negative tumor LDH-A expression and deteriorated LDH status when the patients were categorized with Method A, so we did not further analyze the data by combining the tumor LDH-A expression and Method A LDH status. Here, LDHA is linked to neoplasm.